A research team led by Prof. Tian-Bao Ma from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Tsinghua University has proposed a ...

Witness the power of Lego like never before with this incredible experiment showcasing a massive Lego Technic flywheel and ...

The motion of snakes has long fascinated humans: they undulate, they sidewind, they crawl, they even fly. Subscribe to our ...

A team of bio-robotic specialists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has confirmed theories suggesting that ...

The problem of friction identification within the presliding and sliding regimes is addressed and three identification methods, designated as the LuGre (LG) method, the nonlinear regression (NLR) ...

A Series of dynamic friction experiments has been conducted at the Atlas Pulsed Power Facility. Pulsed currents in excess of 21 MAmps were delivered to a cylindrical liner in about 15 ms. The liner ...

The modern thinking reinterprets Galileo’s Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment, the sliding blocks, the orbiting of the Earth around the Sun – and interactions in general.

The Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment is one good way to do this. It can explain how classical mechanics – the field that engineers and educators employ every day – was brought into the modern ...

A simple new experiment shows how tiny ultrasound shaking at the interfaces between two objects will lower the friction between them – and in some cases, can induce sudden, large jerky motions ...

Friction at the atomic scale appears to depend on the speed at which two surfaces move past each other. This surprising behaviour was observed as the tip of an atomic force microscope (AFM) moves ...

"Friction is puzzling because it is not governed by a single interaction, like attraction between charges; it emerges from a combination of processes that can occur at different scales. In our work, ...