The last time you dropped a favorite mug or sat on your glasses, you may have been too preoccupied to take much notice of the intricate pattern of cracks that appeared in the broken object. But capturing the formation of such patterns is the specialty of John Kolinski and his team at the Laboratory of Engineering Mechanics of Soft Interfaces (EMSI) in EPFL's School of Engineering. They aim to understand how cracks propagate in brittle solids, which is essential for developing and testing safe and cost-effective composite materials for use in construction, sports, and aerospace engineering.
But traditional mechanics approaches to analyzing crack formation assume that cracks are planar -- i.e., that they form on the two-dimensional surface of a material. In fact, simple planar cracks are just the tip of the iceberg: most cracks -- like those in everyday brittle solids like glass -- propagate into three-dimensional networks of ridges and other complex features.
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this turned out to be my last project of the semester and got me an amazing grade (thanks teacher for appreciating punk Marceline) (+hence I decided to make her human instead of vampire, which isnt a big of a difference, just the ears lol)
enjoy my most beloved Human Marceline in all her punk glory
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ok but "the promo materials for new bachelor route proves that daniil has never cared about his patients in the town, that's just fanon" yeah I... im killing you a bit :))) me when I fucking get you
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i understand why many people are upset over chloe’s storylines in season 5 but seeing canon episodes described as “chloe salt” is truly mind boggling. salt is a fan reaction, the episodes themselves are not salt, you are salty about the episodes.
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Hello! You Said at one point akutagawa repulses dazai, can you show proof of that? Cuz I'm genuinely curious
I don't think I can? It's more of an underlying impression / my personal way to interpret the character. Why is Dazai mean towards Akutagawa all the time? It's not like he acts like that with everyone, quite the opposite, he seems to be especially cruel whenever he interacts with Akutagawa. Why does he mistreat and insult Akutagawa so bad if he didn't to some extent dislike him? Why does Dazai refrain from giving Akutagawa what he wants when it'd be so easy for him? Why does he always beat Akutagawa up and not respect Akutagawa's dignity as a person? Even now that he's trying to do good? In my opinion, it's way more convincing to explain it as Dazai being repulsed by Akutagawa than as “Dazai is doing Akutagawa's good” (which is stupid, and Dazai is not stupid), no matter what the author wants us to believe.
When it comes to Dazai and Akutagawa, I think they create a real Frankenstein / creature situation, with Dazai having intentionally created Akutagawa like he is, but turning out to be repulsed by him, and doesn't want to have anything to do with him anymore, especially now that he's moved to the good side and wants to cut all ties with his past. I believe Akutagawa is the living memento for Dazai of how cruel and ruthless and intrinsically evil he himself can be, and that's why he hates him, because he hates that part of himself.
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no but like. does bad know what that book meant. does he know. because if he did then he gave it to forever Anyway. he gave it to forever as part of a GAME. bad never tells people how he feels about them to their faces (rememebr the 14 elegant letters in festa junina! the 14 anonymous letters that were so fucking lovely!!) and he always plays with people and he gave forever a book. that says eu te amo. as part of a GAME.
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Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.
The ancient Romans were masters of engineering, constructing vast networks of roads, aqueducts, ports, and massive buildings, whose remains have survived for two millennia. Many of these structures were built with concrete: Rome’s famed Pantheon, which has the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome and was dedicated in A.D. 128, is still intact, and some ancient Roman aqueducts still deliver water to Rome today. Meanwhile, many modern concrete structures have crumbled after a few decades.
Researchers have spent decades trying to figure out the secret of this ultradurable ancient construction material, particularly in structures that endured especially harsh conditions, such as docks, sewers, and seawalls, or those constructed in seismically active locations.
Now, a team of investigators from MIT, Harvard University, and laboratories in Italy and Switzerland, has made progress in this field, discovering ancient concrete-manufacturing strategies that incorporated several key self-healing functionalities. The findings are published today in the journal Science Advances, in a paper by MIT professor of civil and environmental engineering Admir Masic, former doctoral student Linda Seymour ’14, PhD ’21, and four others.
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i dont know how to phrase this but your art, particularly your merlin art, is so in character?? like they way you draw them is accurate but the poses/situations you draw always feels like something that would actually happen. it's very cool!
THANKS i really appreciate that!! im glad it comes across that way lmao i really do try to make things in character.....even though i definitely like to exaggerate things a little haha
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I only just put this through on AO3 but I hope you got your gift okay! <3 I had so much fun writing it!
Just in case: https://archiveofourown.org/works/54295648
Thanks for all the fun comics and drawings. They've been great and very inspiring.
I just read it and I gotta say I love it
I ain't gonna spoil the story by talking about it in here tho I very much wanna but everything was so perfect and funny ^^
Here's the direct link (heh) if anyone else wants to read it without copy pasting from the ask:
Summary:
Link keeps finding himself in weird places. What's the Hero of Time to do when he finds himself at the end of another Link's journey?
Get annoyed about it, of course!
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