Extreme Textiles:
Designing for
High Performance
7 April - 13 August 2006
Wexner Center for the Arts www.wexarts.org

fig.: Rotor blisk for turbine Foster-Miller Inc. for U.S. Air Force.
Designed by Williams International. Textile designed and manufactured by Foster-Miller. Fabric Development U.S.A., 1995, manufactured 1997.
Composite form with blades of triaxially braided carbon fiber integrally attached to a polar-woven hub, epoxy matrix
Diameter: 5.2 cm (6 in.); height 1 cm (3/8 in.)


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