Engineers have been working for centuries to protect buildings, bridges and other structures from damage caused by severe ...

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The printable polymer enables sand structures with intricate geometries and exceptional strength—and is also water soluble. The study, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates a 3D-printed ...

Capillary bridges make wet sand stick together. Upper row: Theoretical predictions of how capillary bridges (blue) bind glass beads together. Bottom row: Microtomography images of the bridges seen in ...

Researchers have analyzed an extensive collection of sand samples from so-called megaripple fields around the world and gained new insights into the composition of these sand waves. These could help ...

If you want to understand why some sandcastles are tall and have intricate structures while others are nearly shapeless lumps of sand, it helps to have a background in geotechnical engineering. As a ...

image: Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Tomonori Saito shows a 3D-printed sandcastle at the DOE Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL. view more Researchers at the Department of Energy’s ...

Researchers designed a novel polymer to bind and strengthen silica sand for binder jet additive manufacturing, a 3D-printing method used by industries for prototyping and part production. Researchers ...