Keywords: Direct displacement design (DDD). NEESWood Capstone Building. Seismic performance. Multistory structures. Woodframe structures. Residential structures. Shear walls. Interstory drift limits.

Background One injury mechanism in ice hockey is impact with the boards. We investigated whether more flexible hockey boards would provide less biomechanical loading on impact than did existing ...

(a) Mechanism for the feel of softness by a human fingertip. (b) Structure of the indentor. The two sensors are integrated on the sphere surface. (c) Multi-segment displacement control of the indentor ...

In demanding applications, structural materials can be subject to both high temperatures and high stresses at the same time. The combination of temperature and stress in metals often leads to ...