Researchers at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) have made a great leap toward predicting the risk of hip fracture among people with osteoporosis and evaluating the effectiveness of specific drugs to ...

Design engineers routinely rely on bolted joints, yet most guidance focuses on axial stiffness—often overlooking moment (pitch) stiffness, which can dominate compliance in ...

When I landed in Stockholm, I was fresh off of a trip from sampling another Swedish company's (by way of Austria these days) ...

This study introduces a newly optimized triangular-finger electrostatic comb-drive actuator designed to significantly enhance force intensity and travel range within a compact footprint.

Nearly 3 in 10 adults in the United States have experienced lower back pain in any three-month period, making it the most common musculoskeletal pain. Back pain remains one of the leading causes of ...

1 Graduate School of Advanced Healthcare Engineering, Akita University, Akita, Japan. 2 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Akita, Japan. 3 Graduate School ...

Laser powder bed fusion (L-PBF) additive manufacturing (AM) is a key enabling technology to manufacture highly complex and integrated metallic structures. In L-PBF AM process, the melting of the metal ...

Abstract: At present, the 3-D magnetotelluric (MT) unstructured finite element modeling approaches often adopt the block-wise uniform conductivity parameterization method, in which the Earth ...