Inside nearly everything made of concrete, you’ll find reinforced steel rods that compress the material, making buildings, bridges, and other structures even stronger. The rods aren’t designed to ...

The magic touch of an arc welder's stinger gives a standard con rod the strength to resist the forces in a competition engine. Who has more trouble than hot rodders?. Nobody. who makes all the trouble ...

We derive a model for the finite motion of a fibre-reinforced magneto-elastic rod. The reinforcing particles are assumed weakly and uniformly magnetized, rigid and firmly embedded into the elastomeric ...