{"id":32273,"date":"2016-11-28T23:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T07:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/material-measures-the-mood-of-structures"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:01:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:01:55","slug":"material-measures-the-mood-of-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/material-measures-the-mood-of-structures","title":{"rendered":"Material Measures the \u2018Mood\u2019 of Structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ENbRprZcuV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fun stuff<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paintsquare.com\/news\/?fuseaction=view&id=15868&\">http:\/\/www.paintsquare.com\/news\/?fuseaction=view&amp;id=15868&amp;<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Mood rings may have been a fleeting fad of the 1970s, but researchers at Vanderbilt University are using the basic concept as a means of detecting damage in failing infrastructure before it becomes critical.<\/p>\n<p>An interdisciplinary research team at Vanderbilt\u2019s Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability (LASIR) is credited with developing the new sensing system, which incorporates nanoparticles in a clear polymer resin, the school <a href=\"https:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2016\/11\/21\/mood-ring-materials-a-new-way-to-detect-damage-in-failing-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> Nov. 21.<\/p>\n<p>The end result is \u201ca smart material that changes color when it is damaged or about to fail, what I call a \u2018mood ring material,\u2019\u201d explains civil engineering doctoral student Cole Brubaker.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/material-measures-the-mood-of-structures\">Continue reading \u201cMaterial Measures the \u2018Mood\u2019 of Structures\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun stuff http:\/\/www.paintsquare.com\/news\/?fuseaction=view&amp;id=15868&amp; Mood rings may have been a fleeting fad of the 1970s, but researchers at Vanderbilt University are using the basic concept as a means of detecting damage in failing infrastructure before it becomes critical. An interdisciplinary research team at Vanderbilt\u2019s Laboratory for Systems Integrity and Reliability (LASIR) is credited with developing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59632,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32273\/revisions\/59632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}