Materials do not always fail under slow and steady pressure. A steel beam may hold a heavy load for years, yet crack ...

A PV module needs to be able to operate in different types of extreme weather conditions and an infinite increase in its size has the potential to bring significant risk to power plants. Hail is a ...

In my January 2024 column, I reported on a new ASTM test method for use in assessing the damage tolerance of sandwich composites under compression loading: the sandwich compression-after-impact (CAI) ...