[Design and Technology] Flexible further ideas using a felt composite

[Jill Livett]

Another web resource to suggest - if you are interested in new materials, the CSIRO e-newsletter “Snapshot’ often has really interesting articles about new developments in materials science and manufacturing area. The current edition has an article on a stronger carbon fibre, the previous edition had an article about using soybeans to produce graphene (an extremely thin, super-strong material).
Subscribe or go straight to the Manufacturing page of CSIRO: https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/MF <https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/MF>
Cheers
Jill

> On 10 Mar 2017, at 11:43 AM, Jill Livett <livett.teched at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all 
> For a bit of inspiration, there is a brief article on the Materia website looking at flexible adaptive furniture using timber and a felt composite material.
> https://materia.nl/article/flexible-furniture-felt-composite-lanisor-wood/?utm_source=Materia&utm_campaign=efac25ab60-Furniture+Made+From+Felt+Composite&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8794d00bd4-efac25ab60-302605849 <https://materia.nl/article/flexible-furniture-felt-composite-lanisor-wood/?utm_source=Materia&utm_campaign=efac25ab60-Furniture+Made+From+Felt+Composite&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8794d00bd4-efac25ab60-302605849> 
> Unfortunately, thick structural felt is fairly expensive (possibly the closest version is acoustic felt), but the forms and joining methods in the article could be used with other materials and might spark your students to think laterally.
> All the best
> Jill 
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