Image Courtesy Texas Advanced Computing Center |
Eric Fahrenthold and graduate student Robert Rabb from the University of Texas at Austin's
Department of Mechanical
Engineering developed this image using the
Texas Advanced Computing Center's (TACC) ACES Visualization Laboratory. The image
illustrates how high-strength fabrics are used in a variety of applications to protect
structures and personnel from the effects of hypervelocity impact.
The high-strength fabrics are used on the
International Space Station to protect habitable modules from orbital debris impact,
and are used by police and the military services to protect personnel against lethal
projectiles. This project has included interaction with experimental and computational
research programs at NASA Johnson Space Center, NASA White Sands Test Facility, the
Army Research Laboratory, the Army Solider Systems Center, the Naval Research Laboratory
and Southwest Research Institute. Grid-based computing may prove to be an important
vehicle for collaboration among this diverse technical community, whose members share
a common interest in the development and application of new high-strength fabrics.
Learn more about TACC at the center's Web site.
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