Springs are a common device for storing energy. A spring which is compressed from its by an amount x from its equlibrium length exerts a force This work represents energy transferred to the spring and ...

An international research team has developed mechanical metamaterials with a high elastic energy density. Highly twisted rods that deform helically provide these metamaterials with a high stiffness ...

Forces may change the shape of an object. An elastic object, such as a spring, stores elastic potential energy when stretched or squashed. The extension of an elastic object is directly ...

One of the fundamental laws of nature is that energy cannot be made or destroyed, just transformed from one form into another. However, when you convert from one form of energy into another not ...

Kinetic energy, i.e., motion energy or the corresponding ... The scientists compare this mechanism to a classic bending spring, whose maximum deformation is limited by high tensile and compressive ...