A house may look perfectly fine or in pristine condition while major problems are brewing within the system or at its ...

When a home inspection report lands in your inbox, your eyes probably jump to the obvious: the roof, the furnace, maybe the ...

A new technique maintains structural integrity by essentially hiding openings in materials from surrounding forces. Rather than reinforcing an opening, such as a hole or a window, to protect against a ...

The small and complicated features of TSVs give rise to different defect types. Defects can form during any of the TSV ...

A research team led by Prof. Sergey Kharintsev has answered a long-standing question: why the refractive index of spatially confined media, such as quantum dots, nanocrystals and thin films, can ...

Danipal Betyordekom has been checking — and repairing — many of Marin’s structural foundations for 28 years. Betyordekom is the owner of San Rafael’s I Construction and Structural Inc., a ...

Whether designing a window in an airliner or a cable conduit for an engine, manufacturers devote a lot of effort to reinforcing openings for structural integrity. But the reinforcement is rarely ...