Understanding how helical, curved beams operate — how their spiral cuts accommodate angular and parallel misalignment, axial motion, and system vibrations Understanding how helical, curved beams ...

Among its many notable innovations, the new 2020 Chevrolet Corvette sports car from General Motors Co. features the world’s first radius pultruded auto part. The vehicle’s rear bumper beam (shown ...

The in-plane strength properties of a composite material, axial and transverse tension and compression and in-plane shear, are usually the first to be considered in design. However, ...

When engineers need to make curved or bent pieces of sheet metal, they use company-written tables, rules of thumb, and guesstimates to determine the length of straight stock needed for bending into a ...