A biased solid

David Jones

Nature, 1997, vol. 388, issue 6645, 835-835

Abstract: The ‘bias cut’, invented by Mme Vionnet in 1922, is when fibres in the fabric of, say, a dress run at 45x to one another; the result is a garment that, if it stretches vertically, will shrink horizontally. Daedalus plans to try this idea in three dimensions, with cotten, polyester or metal wire, to make an engineering component that when pushed into a hole can be manipulated to fit the hole exactly. The uses of these ‘Vionnet solids’ would be as buffers, seals and shock-absorbers.

Date: 1997
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