Zheng gets cover of Nature Materials

Researchers led by Xiaoyu “ Rayne ” Zheng , an assistant

Zheng professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech have published a study in the journal Nature Materials that describes a new process to create lightweight , strong and super elastic 3-D printed metallic nanostructured materials with unprecedented scalability , a full seven orders of magnitude control of arbitrary 3-D architectures .

These multiscale metallic materials display super elasticity because of their designed hierarchical 3-D architectural arrangement and nanoscale hollow tubes , resulting in more than a 400 percent increase of tensile elasticity over conventional lightweight metals and ceramic foams .

Behkam in Nanoscale

The journal Nanoscale recently published a work by associate professors Bahareh Behkam and Amrinder Nain and doctoral

student

Behkam

Zhou Ye . The article , Spun-wrapped Aligned Nanofiber

( SWAN ) Lithography for Fabrication of Micro-Nano Structures on 3D Objects covers a cost-effective technique for fabrication of multiscale structures on 3D objects . A provisional patent on the method has also been filed .

Ben-Tzvi and Rone publish paper

Pinhas Ben-Tzvi , associate professor , and doctoral student William Rone , have published a peer-reviewed

paper entitled " Dynamic Ben-Tzvi Modeling and Simulation of a Yaw-Angle Quadruped Maneuvering with a

Planar Robotic Tail ." The paper was published in the Journal of Dynamic Systems , Measurement and Control , Transactions of the ASME .

Up periscope

Robin Ott , associate professor of practice , was one of nine educators from around the nation invited to Navy Submarine Base Point Loma , San Diego this summer . The group toured the destroyer , USS Sterett ( DDG 104 ), trained in fire , flood and navigation simulators , and took part in a ride at sea on the USS Pasadena ( SSN 752 ), a Los Angeles class , nuclear powered , fast attack submarine . The submarine trip included tours of the control room , sonar , torpedo room , state rooms , and the bridge .