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Are there any fabrics available in today’s time which can stretch in one direction only and behave completely rigid in the perpendicular direction ?

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Or does any Materials Science expert know about any on-going research in this area ?

I particularly wanted to know the way in which one might go about manufacturing something like this.

So, if such a fabric is imagined to be made up of perpendicularly intersecting fibres, one of which is stretchable while the other is not, like criss-crossing rubber & fibreglass fibres, for instance, what would be the way to make something like this ?

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  • $\begingroup$ I could fab an equivalent by tying a bunch of metal rods together with elastic strings -- rods in y-axis, elastics in x-axis. Problem with "fabric" is that implies a material which flexes (folds) easily in both axes, so now you're looking for a material that's flexible but not extensible. $\endgroup$
    – Carl Witthoft
    Commented Apr 19, 2018 at 16:58
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    $\begingroup$ @CarlWitthoft Yes. Exactly so. Sorry for not being more elaborate. $\endgroup$
    – RedHelmet
    Commented Apr 19, 2018 at 17:02
  • $\begingroup$ @RedHelmet so edit your question so it is clearer, expecting people to trawl through comments to piece together your meaning .... $\endgroup$
    – Solar Mike
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 4:49
  • $\begingroup$ @SolarMike ok done. $\endgroup$
    – RedHelmet
    Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 4:52

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If you calender a rubber with some thin steel cords in the calendered direction you could achieve this.

Edit: For those who are unfamiliar with calenders, they are "a series of hard pressure rollers used to finish or smooth a sheet of material such as paper, textiles, or plastics".

Do not confuse calenders (with an ers ending), which are rollers, with calendars (with an ars ending) which is a time keeping device.

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