Flextegrity, Inc. is creating and developing advanced polyhedral materials that anticipate and meet the comprehensive demands of civil engineering applications, disaster-resistant housing, environmental solutions, and revolutionary product designs. The foundation of Flextegrity?s intellectual property is a unique and innovative icosahedron and truncated icosahedrons tensile architecture for assembled structural materials. Flextegrity?s synergistic patented geometry uses well-proven engineering principles in new ways to leverage the inherent compression and tension forces of standard materials to their optimal natural performance. Specifically, Flextegrity geometries, from micro- to meso-scale, utilize polyhedral elements as compression members and a proprietary tensile matrix to produce omni-directional anisotropic structural materials with superior strength-to-weight ratios and precisely definable flexibility and stiffness characteristics in every dimension. This radically simple yet elegant technology can provide innovative solutions to existing material needs using conventional resources. The development continues the long studied application of geometric principles to materials. The I-beam is familiar to most. As a far-reaching horizontal technology, it possesses the inherent capability to impact and feed multiple vertically integrated technologies.
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I had the great good fortune to accompany Buckminster Fuller on his speaking tour of Southeast Asia in 1976. His impact on my life is immeasurable. Working out of a small basement studio in Raleigh, N.C. I began to construct tensegrities as art with the prospect of producing tables and useful designs. To my knowledge, I was the first to use "curved" compression members in their construction. My subsequent explorations into the geometry of "Tensegrities" provided insights into the possibility that a "universal fabric" could be woven from wire and struts. And then, I proved myself wrong (that is, I abandoned the thesis for using the Tensegrity paradigm) and arrived at an entirely different solution that is elegant, economical, structural stable, easy to produce and practical. I took a harder look at tension and compression. To be faithful, Kenneth Snelson is the progenitor of what has come to be known as 'tensegrity' -a Fuller term. Mr. Snelson's work has inspired me. However, Tensegrities, in their present construction, are neither practical in application nor do they lend themselves to machine assembly. It took a long time to come to that conclusion.
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