Metal-matrix composites are either in use or prototyping for the Space Shuttle, commercial airliners, electronic substrates, bicycles, automobiles, golf clubs, and a variety of other applications.

Metal-toned coatings allow designers to mimic real metal in their designs, down to the finest detail. Create the eye-catching sparkle of silver, simulate a copper finish or provide a bronze metallic ...

Human-machine interfaces (HMI) are undergoing a seismic change now that a new approach is available for designing button panels. Inductive-sensing technology is becoming the preferred method when ...

Design professionals now have a valuable new resource on practical applications for stability design in AISC Steel Design Guide No. 28, Stability Design of Steel Buildings, authored by Lawrence ...

In an outdoor setting, the site the garden of the Fashion Institute of Technology, 227 West 27th Street, New York, the spectacular qualities of stainless steel were effectively displayed in an exhibit ...

Lightweight, super strong, durable and almost endlessly recyclable, aluminium is a designer’s dream material. We were particularly enamoured with Naoto Fukasawa’s ‘Za’ stools for American furniture ...

As runaway construction input costs have sent real estate prices soaring in recent years, perhaps no material has seen larger leaps than metals, like iron, steel and copper. Why then is Adam Steel, an ...

Escalating design size and complexity, more complex design-rule checks (DRCs), higher DRC rule count and increasing design-for-manufacturability (DFM) challenges are causing the physical verification ...