{"id":91075,"date":"2019-05-21T12:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/mit-new-3d-chainmail-interlock-system-with-ten-times-the-stiffness"},"modified":"2019-05-21T12:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T19:03:51","slug":"mit-new-3d-chainmail-interlock-system-with-ten-times-the-stiffness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/mit-new-3d-chainmail-interlock-system-with-ten-times-the-stiffness","title":{"rendered":"MIT new 3D chainmail interlock system with ten times the stiffness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-new-3d-chainmail-interlock-system-with-ten-times-the-stiffness.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2013\/how-to-make-big-things-out-of-small-pieces-0815.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Researchers invent a new approach to assembling big structures \u2014 even airplanes and bridges \u2014 out of small interlocking composite components.<\/a> MIT researchers have developed a lightweight structure whose tiny blocks can be snapped together much like the bricks of a child\u2019s construction toy. The new material, the researchers say, could revolutionize the assembly of airplanes, spacecraft, and even larger structures, such as dikes and levees.<\/p>\n<p>NBF \u2013 This is huge. It boosts what is possible with additive manufacturing and 3D printing. This will revolutionize manufacturing and construction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2013\/08\/mit-3d-interlock-variants-and-closer-to.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UPDATE \u2013 I have added a discussion of variants to the 3D interlock system and compare it to the Utility Fog concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2013\/08\/mit-new-3d-chainmail-interlock-system.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers invent a new approach to assembling big structures \u2014 even airplanes and bridges \u2014 out of small interlocking composite components. MIT researchers have developed a lightweight structure whose tiny blocks can be snapped together much like the bricks of a child\u2019s construction toy. The new material, the researchers say, could revolutionize the assembly of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91075","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}