Scientists carefully positioned lasers to compress billions of electrons together, creating a beam five times more powerful ...

If it’s a load-bearing wall, the inspector may help size the beam or recommend that you have a structural engineer or architect size it. The inspector will check the size, issue a permit and che ...

Before replacing a load-bearing wall with a load-bearing beam, it's necessary to consult a specialist, like a structural engineer or an architect. You will also need to consider the cost of the ...

When a load pushes down on the beam, the beam's top edge is pushed together (compression) while the bottom edge is stretched (tension). Take a flat eraser or a small sponge and slice a shallow ...

The Cantilever Beam functions, used for uncertainty quantification, model a simple uniform cantilever beam with horizontal and vertical loads. The beam length L and ... The responses are displacement ...

But it's not as simple as just shooting a few lasers down a tunnel. "We have a one-kilometer-long machine, and the laser interacts with the beam in the first 10 meters, so you have to get the ...