{"id":198091,"date":"2024-10-22T00:25:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T05:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/falling-for-it-a-micro-scale-look-at-how-parachute-fibers-act-under-stress"},"modified":"2024-10-22T00:25:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T05:25:12","slug":"falling-for-it-a-micro-scale-look-at-how-parachute-fibers-act-under-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/falling-for-it-a-micro-scale-look-at-how-parachute-fibers-act-under-stress","title":{"rendered":"Falling for it: A micro-scale look at how parachute fibers act under stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/falling-for-it-a-micro-scale-look-at-how-parachute-fibers-act-under-stress2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Parachutes have many applications, decelerating everything from skydivers to supersonic-speed scientific payloads. Regardless of what a parachute is slowing down, two things remain constant: the parachute must withstand large amounts of force, and it is crucial to ensuring the safety of whatever it\u2019s carrying. To choose parachute materials that do their jobs effectively, it\u2019s important to fully understand what happens while a parachute is opening and on its way down.<\/p>\n<p>Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology researchers Cutler Phillippe, Francesco Panerai and Laura Villafa\u00f1e Roca have used computed tomography scans to study the fiber-scale properties of parachute textiles and link them to larger-scale behavior. Their work is <a href=\"https:\/\/arc.aiaa.org\/doi\/10.2514\/1.J064350\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know generally how a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/textile\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">textile<\/a> impacts the performance of the parachute,\u201d said Phillippe, a graduate student in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. \u201cBut we don\u2019t know from an experimental standpoint how that performance is related to the individual fiber motions within the textile as well as the dynamic properties of, for example, a bundle of fibers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parachutes have many applications, decelerating everything from skydivers to supersonic-speed scientific payloads. Regardless of what a parachute is slowing down, two things remain constant: the parachute must withstand large amounts of force, and it is crucial to ensuring the safety of whatever it\u2019s carrying. To choose parachute materials that do their jobs effectively, it\u2019s important [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}