NASA’s meteorite-resistant space fabric is like futuristic chainmail

in #science7 years ago

 

Soooo... NASA just announced that it's creating meteorite resistant suits of armor... Get the feeling their trying to tell you something?  



The design of the fabric, which was led by JPL engineer Raul Polit Casillas, is such that it’s both flexible and highly durable against impacts. It’s the same basic premise that led medieval combatants to create chainmail, and while the concept may be centuries old, it remains sound as a means of protection.

However, unlike traditional chainmail, this new metal fabric isn’t constructed of separate pieces. Instead, it’s 3D-printed as a unit and each of the small pieces of armor is already attached to its neighbors once printing has finished. “We call it ‘4-D printing’ because we can print both the geometry and the function of these materials,” Casillas said. “If 20th Century manufacturing was driven by mass production, then this is the mass production of functions.”  Read the full article here!


Meterors can still flatten what is underneath it by it's velocity and weight alone, but it looks cool!!!  




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