Steel support columns in the Midtown building, which is being converted from offices into apartments, may have been ...

FDNY firefighters are on the scene of an unstable high-rise in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, currently undergoing conversion into luxury apartments. The 30-story building faces a risk of localized ...

Los Angeles mayoral hopeful Nithya Raman is facing another viral campaign moment after delivering what critics are calling a word salad answer to a straightforward question about defunding the police.

Abstract: The inspection of bridges and other infrastructure with UAVs when the sensors need to be in contact with the surface (i.e. ultrasound for crack inspection or reflector prism for beam ...

In this video I take a look at five methods that can be used to predict how a beam will deform when loads are applied to it. These are the double integration method, Macaulay's method, the principle ...

The ability to adapt and conform to angular and uneven surfaces improves the suction cup’s performance in grasping and manipulation. However, in most cases, the adaptation costs lack of required ...

Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States Materials Science and Engineering Department, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, ...

1 Guangdong Polytechnic of Water Resource and Electric Engineering, Guangzhou, China. 2 School of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. Deflection ...

We report an empirical study of gaze deflection—a common experience in which you turn to look in a different direction when someone “catches” you staring at them. We show that gaze cueing (the ...

New Orleans — Speculation mounted Wednesday about possible causes of the weekend collapse of the half-built Hard Rock Café in New Orleans, reports the CBS affiliate here, WWL-TV. As authorities ...

This paper presents a robotic system using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for bridge-inspection tasks that require physical contact between the aerial platform and the bridge surfaces, such as ...