In this satirical "research paper", the author shares his weekly tradition of visiting Chick-fil-a, leading to cutting edge research on the restaurant's reward system. Analyzing the menu items based on protein, calories, and cost per point, he discovers the breakfast burrito offers the best protein value, while the kale crunch salad emerges as the most economical choice.
Aircraft design is a very promising application of topology optimization (TO) techniques due to the high impact weight savings can have on design efficiency and effectiveness. So far however, the technology seems relatively underutilized, especially given the increasing prevalence of optimization tools in aircraft design.
Interested in multiphysics simulations and archaeology? Click here for thermomechanical simulations of ceramics firing, created to aid archaeological analyses of ancient ceramics! The simulations utilize a truss Finite Element Model to investigate thermal stress distribution in ceramic artifacts with internal defects. The post also shares a link to download the related paper and mentions the…
One of the three core requirements of a self-replicating machine (as I have defined it) is Universality, a term I never defined in the article about my fully 3D printed 3D printer, yet happily claimed to have fulfilled. Although I did give the idea more text in the full length paper (which can be downloaded [ ]
How Far Have We Come? Progress by Problem This project has officially become the first fully 3D printed 3D printer, and thus the first assisted self-replicating machine. Problem 1: A Conductive Material and Motor Problem 2: A Motor Controller and Data Storage Format Without Microprocessors Problem 3: Storing a Digital Model Without Microprocessors Problem 4: [ ]
I occasionally get asked if my self-replicating 3D printer will ever become self-aware and turn on humanity. While I can neither confirm nor deny if this is a design goal of the project, the likelihood that the printer, as designed, can undergo evolution and significantly change its function is very small. But that doesn t have [ ]
Inspired by their previous success, the team launched into the design of a new and improved rocket nozzle. Preflight Optimizing the Nozzle In order to achieve a higher thrust from rockets, a design called a converging-diverging nozzle is used. This nozzle can accelerate the exiting gases to much faster speeds than a similarly sized [ ]