(1) Introduction
(2) Origins

DESCRIPTION
(3) Generic characteristics
(4) Distinct characteristics
 

"IIIR" - type "IIIL" - type "OOO" - type "IIO" - type "OOI" - type

(5) Colored illustrations
 

"IIIR" - type "IIIL" - type "OOO" - type "IIO" - type "OOI" - type

(6) Photographs of models
 

"IIIR"- type "IIIL" - type "OOO" - type "IIO" - type "OOI" - type

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Illustrations below should be seen as representing illustrative samples cut out from
much larger, arbitrarily large, billets, slabs, mats, etc. of mass-produced stock.
                                       
Free downloads in ZIP format                                                                                                        

Stock can be continuously mass produced as 3D-woven engineered material,
impregnated & cured to suit. Cured end-product may be rigid or flexible.

Animated 3D-CAD models of equipment to mass produce these
3D-woven bulk materials can be generated for party/parties interested in the
development of such equipment.
 Derck van Schuylenburch                                                               

On-site consulting, surveillance, trouble-shooting during
equipment-fabrication & production-startup can be provided.
Availability thereafter for further product development a possibility.
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(1) INTRODUCTION         

This website describes each member of a family of five isotropic 3D-weave types with
text, illustrations & photographs.

These weave types are designated as the "IIIR"- "IIIL"-,"OOO"-, "IIO"- "OOI"- weave types respectively,
They are patented under US patent 5,263,516,
and are designated by the following trademark:
"Isoweave" (TM).
(tri-axially isotropic 3D weave)

Note:
The "IIIR"- "IIIL"-,"OOO"-, "IIO"- "OOI"- weave types were formerly designated as
"R"- "L"-,"E"-,"S"- "C"- weave types respectively
and are so designated in the patent.

(2) ORIGINS               

In the world of 2D-weaving -the world of fabrics- the simplest form thereof is one recognized by all.
A fabric so woven is referred to as a "simply woven fabric" in this website.
Such fabric has a unique, defining geometric structure, which one could call its "base geometry".

Similarly, the five 3D-weaves also have their respective "base geometries".
These five base geometries -and only these- are exact mathematical 3D-analogs of
the base geometry defining a simply woven fabric.

In fact, searching for the exact mathematical 3D-analog of the base geometry defining
a simply woven fabric resulted in discovering five -and only five- such analogs.
By this discovery the five 3D-weavements became evident.

The base geometries of these five 3D-weaves are described generically
in the first page upon entering this site and and they are then described distinctly and serially
in the five subsequent pages.

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SOME POSSIBLE USES:
(when compactly woven from multi-stranded carbon nanofibers)
1. Anti-ballistic applications,
2. Blast-containment applications,
3. Breach-prevention applications,
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