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The attention given to magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) has been on the rise over the last few decades. MREs feature a remarkable field-controllable modulus or mechanical characteristics that are influenced by an external magnetic field. Compared to its family member magnetorheological fluids (MRF), MREs offer advantages in terms of overcoming sealing and sedimentation issues. This makes them highly promising for the development of smart base isolation systems of buildings and other infrastr...

Well see you next week. weve been following a developing story out of russia today where a plane carrying the president of poland along with dozens of members of that countrys government crashed. everybody on board died. a lot of questions about the weather conditions at the time as well as the performance and age of of the aircraft. well talk to an aviation expert straight ahead about it. plus this -- >> the black thing right here is a base isolator. its not attached to the ground. its like...

This region. many fuel pipelines lie here and it is in the top five busiest places for classroom railroad service, truck and inland ports. memphis has the worlds busiest cargo traffic airport. fedex moves more than 1 million pieces of cargo through its headquarters in memphis every day. >> our brand was built on reliability. we do everything in our power to anticipate these sorts of things so the new madrid fault being here and our placement in the midsouth in the fault, we understand those risk...