Safe Room Wall Design for Tornado Survival

The Vortex-Cooled Chamber Wall Engine: A Tamed Tornado

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Dual-Objective-Based Tornado Design Philosophy

Tornadoes represent a unique natural hazard because of the very low probability of occurrence, short warning times (on the order of only a fewminutes), and the intense and destructive forces imposed on engineered and nonengineered buildings. The very low-probability/very high-consequence nature of a tornado strike makes designing for survival and reducing damage under typical financial constrai...

Pillars of a Smart, Safe Operating Room

Major gains in patient safety can be achieved through development of innovative approaches to the care of surgical patients. Investigators and clinicians have conceived an “operating room of the future” (ORF) that epitomizes those current and future enhancements that can contribute to patient safety in the operative environment. In this article, we explore these enhancements in the context of t...

Tornado Codes for Archival Storage

Design for a Room-Temperature Superconductor

The vision of “room-temperature superconductivity” has appeared intermittently but prominently in the literature since 1964, when W. A. Little and V. L. Ginzburg began working on the problem of high-temperature superconductivity around the same time. Since that time the prospects for room-temperature superconductivity have varied from gloom (around 1980) to glee (the years immediately after the...