Episode 104: Stork, the elastic stone
It’s a composite made up of several pieces of stone, wrapped in layers of fiber and resin as well as cork. Stork, described by its creators as “bouncy stone” or simply elastic stone, began to be developed at Técnico at the beginning of this century. The stone was given a “pseudo-elasticity”: it recovers its initial shape after being pressed by a greater weight. It is also four times lighter than the natural stone it was made from. The composite, which was developed in the Mechanical and Material Testing Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Técnico – Alameda campus, began to attract attention at international fairs and ended up being bought by Filstone. Its technology has already been applied in a Lisbon hospital.
- Acknowledgements:
Joel Pinheiro
Pedro Miguel Amaral
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