Schweiss Doors has done away with all the cables, chains, sprockets and pulleys with its new strap latch assembly, and its ...

In some ways, the humble door handles we use to open our vehicles haven’t changed much in over five decades. In others, today’s modern handles represent a leap forward in technology. In the formative ...

Task: Given a late-model pickup truck to review and inspect, the rescue team will determine how to adapt their rescue techniques when a rear-hinged rear door is present on a crash-damaged vehicle. In ...

Click and release: Experimental set-up used to constrain click beetles during X-ray synchrotron imaging at the Advanced Photon Source. (Courtesy: John J Socha) Click beetles use the elastic recoil of ...

If animals and insects can jump across grass and sand, why can’t robots? Sarah Bergbreiter, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has found that researchers don’t have to look far to enable this in ...