A team led by chemist and woodworking enthusiast Dr. Bharat Baruah at Kennesaw State University in Georgia has figured out how to turn balsa wood into a futuristic building material. The most ...

If an engineer makes an improper assumption while designing something, sometimes the consequences are fatal. An engineering ...

Aeromodelers Swap and Show welcomed hobbyists and enthusiasts alike to Washington Square Mall on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

Three teams of Dominican university students participated this year in the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) 2025 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition. The event gathered 48 ...

(KFVS) - More than two dozen area high schools put their skills to the test in the Missouri Department of Transportation’s annual Bridge Building ... bridge with just balsa wood, glue, and ...

Growing up in the state of Assam in northeastern India, Baruah encountered buildings ... woods. Wood has three components: cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. To make it transparent, the lignin ...

middle and high school students were challenged to build a model truss-type or arch-type bridge out of balsa wood and yellow carpenter’s glue. The bridge models, which fit inside a shoe box ...

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According to the Missouri Department of Transportation, they tested nearly 200 bridges entered into its 21st annual Bridge Building ... model bridge using limited materials, including balsa ...

SJEC AERO is an aeromodelling club of St. Joseph Engineering College, established with an aim to create innovation in the field of aviation with regard to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (RC planes and ...

Soon after, Guillow designed a line of balsa flying model construction kits—scale models built from a wood frame ... company expanded to a more suitable building nearby. For years, Guillow ...

Instead a model might be made from card, foam, glassfibre, or resin. [tiny WORLD] takes an opposite tack, building scale model ... is a wire grid in place of wooden shuttering is what looks ...