Different structures have different functions or purposes. The individual parts of any structure need to be selected, arranged and fixed together carefully to make sure the structure carries out its ...

The analysis of stress in cylindrical shell structures underpins the safe and efficient design of critical engineering systems, including pressure vessels, pipelines, aerospace fuselages and offshore ...

Over the past decade, experts in the field of nanotechnology and materials science have been trying to devise architectures composed of small structures that spontaneously arrange themselves following ...