How do avalanches affect pylons and other sensitive infrastructure? Using detailed simulations, SLF researcher Michael Kohler has shown that the compressibility of snow initially reduces avalanche ...

AMHERST, Mass. – Smooth wrinkles and sharply crumpled regions are familiar motifs in biological and synthetic sheets, such as plant leaves and crushed foils, say physicists Benny Davidovitch, ...

BMW has secured a patent that turns the front wheel into a crumple zone similar to the safety feature built into cars for decades. In the BMW Motorrad patent, the front wheel stays straight on impact, ...

Dublin, April 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Auto Crumple Zone Market Report 2025" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The auto crumple zone market has been experiencing robust ...

A Crumple Zone takes the impact of a crash by, as the name suggest crumpling when a crash occurs. By doing this, the crumple zone provides a space that is designed to take the impact of a crash. The ...

In the event of a crash crumple zones are designed to send energy around the passenger cabin of a car to keep the occupants safe. Another crucial safety feature of crumple zones is to slow down the ...

How a featureless sheet develops a complex shape has long remained elusive, but now physicists have identified a fundamental mechanism by which such complex patterns emerge spontaneously. Smooth ...