Ever
wonder about the science of knitting?
The
following is taken from https://phys.org/news/2019-03-science-unpicked.html
Dating
back more than 3,000 years, knitting is an ancient form of
manufacturing, but Elisabetta Matsumoto of the Georgia Institute of
Technology in Atlanta believes that understanding how stitch types
govern shape and stretchiness will be invaluable for designing new
"tunable" materials. For instance, tissuelike flexible
material could be manufactured to replace biological tissues, such as
torn ligaments, with stretchiness and sizing personalized to fit each
individual.
At
the American Physical Society March Meeting in Boston this week,
Matsumoto will present her work on the mathematical rules that
underlie knitting. She will also participate in a press conference
describing the work. Information for logging on to watch and ask
questions remotely is included at the end of this news release.
"By
picking a stitch you are not only choosing the geometry but
the elastic
properties,
and that means you can build in the right mechanical properties for
anything from aerospace engineering to tissue scaffolding materials,"
said Matsumoto.
Matsumoto
enjoyed knitting as a child and when she later became interested in
mathematics and physics, she developed a new appreciation for her
hobby.
"I
realized that there is just a huge amount of math and materials
science that
goes into textiles, but that is taken for granted an awful lot,"
said Matsumoto.
"Every
type of stitch has a different elasticity, and if we figure out
everything possible then we could create things that are rigid in a
certain place using a certain type of stitch, and use a different
type of stitch in another place to get different functionality."
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-science-unpicked.html#jCp
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