Researchers Patent Tailoring Process to Toughen Materials Used for Cables, Tethers and Webbing.

Advanced Materials & Composites News,  October, 2000  

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Researchers have found they can toughen flexible composite materials, which can be used for cables and tethers, by creating multiple locations at which energy can be dissipated. Georgia Institute of Technology aerospace engineers Drs. D. Stefan Dancila and Erian Armanios developed this concept of "redundant load paths." A patent on the tailoring process for redundant load paths is in the final stage of being issued to both the researchers and the Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

While experiments continue to verify the concept with a variety of flexible composite ...

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