Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been leveraged to study the surface defects of natural rubber vulcanizates so that their structural-mechanical properties can be defined. This data is vital to ...

Premature finishing, overworking the surface and inadequate curing are typical causes of surface defects on exterior slabs. Some of these defects include premature wear, scaling, mortar flaking ...

In a recent article, researchers explored Lamb wave-based analysis for detecting interfacial debonding defects in CFRP-rubber structures. The study demonstrated that the debonding evaluation ...

Supporters say rubber "mulch" protects kids from falls, but experts wonder whether chemicals could pose a risk to kids.

Scanning tunneling microscopy uses a sharp probe to map the surface of a material atom by atom. Researchers at Drexel and UCLA are using the technology to get the first high-resolution look at the ...

Work to remove the soft fall surface material at a popular Bargara playground, east of Bundaberg, has renewed concerns about the safety of the recycled rubber material used nationwide. The Bargara ...

To solve the problem of difficult quantitative identification of surface defect depth during laser ultrasonic inspection, a support vector machine-based method for quantitative identification of ...