... on the inside with a material that is soft and flexible under normal conditions, but which "locks" instantaneously, becoming hard and shock-absorbent, if the helmet is subjected to impact or blows.
NASA has a shock absorber solution to its new rocket's vibration problem.
... a new $1.6 million research program funded by the National Science Foundation to help design a new generation of adaptive, "smart" shock absorbers for buildings and bridges in earthquake-prone areas.
... up to a 10 percent improvement in overall vehicle fuel efficiency by using the regenerative shock absorbers. The company that produces Humvees for the army, and is currently working on development of ...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A team of U.S. undergraduate students from MIT has invented an efficient shock absorber that also generates electricity from small bumps in a road.
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The idea for an energy-producing shock absorber started humbly enough, just another wild invention tossed out during a late-night dorm-room bull session ...
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Phoenix will touch down in Green Valley with the aid of a parachute, retro rockets and three strong legs with shock absorbing footpads to slow it down.
That's sol (a Martian day) ...
... heal itself, has long been a target of tissue engineers. Cartilage is the skeleton's shock absorber, and its stiffness, strength and other mechanical properties derive not from living cartilage cells ...
... invented a way to make beds of tiny, shock-absorbing carbon springs which possibly could be used to protect ... human hair, can act as extremely resilient shock absorbers.
Similar coiled carbon nanotubes ...
... than four years, this simple concept -- that normal folk could ride longer and stronger with a stiff but shock-absorbing frame and handlebars raised a couple of inches -- has swept the industry. The ...
... a car hitting a bump in the road." says Cooper. "The potassium channels are like the shock absorbers on the car's suspension—they dampen some of the oscillations caused when the sodium channels open ...
... , with a squishy center surrounded by a tough outer portion. It functions like a shock absorber between the vertebrae. When a disc ruptures, or becomes herniated, the squishy disc tissue can spread ...
... the spine in the back are cushioned by small, spongy disks. When these disks are healthy, they act as shock absorbers for the spine and keep the spine flexible. But when a disk is damaged, it may ...
... vehicle to the depot and the cleat tells you that the right rear suspension has a problem in the shock absorber or a critical bolt in the front suspension is broken. The maintenance personnel don't ...
... MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
The technology could be used to coat other products including shock absorbers and print rolls. Recent tests showed that print rolls coated with ...
