Thanks to their very high strength-to-weight ratio, Carbon-NanoTube Fibers (CNTFs) hold
great promise for challenging structural applications, such as super-long suspension …

Flextegrity is a broad structural concept, represented here by a chain of perforated massive
segments in dry contact, coupled by a passing-through pre-tensioned tie-rod (tendon) …

The paper presents a solid-mechanics based method for the determination of the
macroscopic tensile properties of fibers composed of monodispersed Carbon NanoTubes …

In order to demonstrate the wide range of inelastic non-linear tensile responses observed in
structured fibers of various types, an ideal phenomenological model (Gedankenmodell) is …

Big structures, such as super long suspension bridges, require materials that overcome the
specific strength of steel, since there is a material-dependent limit size beyond which they …