The bridge was demoed for the first time late last month, when the MB4.0 was successfully set up to allow several cars to cross the Hongo River in Fukuyama City. While other makeshift bridges are ...

One of the problems with natural disasters and man-made disasters alike is that you can't always tell when they're going to happen. Sometimes, they knock out important structures, like bridges that ...

The traditional Japanese art of origami may have originated using paper, but now, the intricate folds have inspired what scientists claim to be "the world's fastest, largest, strongest, and lightest ...

Eat your heart out, GI Joe Bridge Layer. A team from the Graduate School of Engineering in Hiroshima University has developed a temporary and portable bridge design that unfolds itself like an ...

The bridge can be ready for traffic within an hour of its initial deployment, say the researchers Engineers have successfully tested a mobile bridge based on origami that could be deployed in disaster ...

[youtube =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RL9IB90M2o&w=537&h-302] Natural disasters have a way of showing us how fragile and unpredictable our lives can be. Survivors ...

Load-bearing structures like bridges and shelters can be made with origami modules -- versatile components that can fold compactly and adapt into different shapes -- engineers have demonstrated. For ...

After a major natural disaster, one of the biggest challenges is how to quickly rebuild basic infrastructure. A lot of logistics are required to ship everything needed to build a bridge or house–and, ...

Engineers have successfully tested a mobile bridge based on origami that could be deployed in disaster zones. In a test, Mobile Bridge version 4.0 was set up without any foundations by only a few ...

Engineers have successfully tested a mobile bridge based on origami that could be deployed in disaster zones. In a test, Mobile Bridge version 4.0 was set up without any foundations by only a few ...