Keywords: Earthquake engineering, cable dynamics; nonlinear dynamics; flexible bus conductors; earthquake excitation; tensegrity; complementarity Abstract: The use of cables may be seen in different ...

Are our bodies solid or liquid? We all know the convention—that solids maintain their shapes, while liquids fill the containers they're in. But often in the real world, those lines are blurred.

In 2011, a series of three storms passed through western Massachusetts and resulted in extended outages on a 69-kV transmission line in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, U.S. In June 2011, an ...

Systems of rigid rods acquire rigidity via the addition of random additional rods and cables, as captured via a graph theory. The research team's main object of study, shown here, is structures that ...

In June 2011, an EF3 tornado caused considerable damage in western Massachusetts. In 2011, a series of three storms passed through western Massachusetts and resulted in extended outages on a 69-kV ...