Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance
Stronger, faster, lighter, safer, smarterthese are the textiles of tomorrow. From the carbon-fiber composite bicycle frame to the cardiac constraint sock and the Mars Pathfinder landing airbags, material innovations surround us. Our landscape, our buildings, our vehicles, our clothes, and our bodies all benefit from these highly engineered performance textiles. \ Featuring examples of fully realized products from all classes of technical textilesarchitectural, product design, apparel,...
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This volume accompanies a 2005 exhibition of the same name at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Curator McQuaid presents an intriguing look at technical textiles and their applications. Touted as the lightest, safest, strongest, smartest, and fastest materials, these "extreme" textiles are used in a myriad of different ways, ranging from airplanes to boats & bicycles, to prosthetic limbs and medical devices implanted in humans, as a structural element in architecture, in spacecraft & spacesuits, and much more. The unusual textured cover, close-up photographs of the textiles themselves, as well as numerous illustrations and photographs of their many applications serve to make the book visually compelling. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Foreword6Introduction : stronger, faster, lighter, safer, and smarter10Textiles : fiber, structure, and function34Ropes66High-performance fibers72NASA : advancing ultra-performance138The spacesuit162Textiles from novel means of innovation180
