Quantitative modelling of SCALED material properties

SCALED（tm）是一家总部位于伦敦的材料技术公司，开发下一代柔性和保护性身体保护。在SCALED，我们将个性化可穿戴设备的设计自动化，以应对多样化和活跃的社会带来的长寿、健康生活的挑战。目前最先进的防护可穿戴设备是标准尺寸的，以普通欧洲男性为模型。对大多数人来说，现有的身体保护器都很坚硬、笨重、不舒服。活动受到的限制比需要的程度更大，大量使用会导致肌肉量减少。不适和不必要的活动限制促使患者比建议更早地摘下可穿戴设备，冒着进一步受伤或延长恢复时间的风险。此外，现有的可穿戴设备缺乏任何定制。患有重复性劳损（RSI）等慢性疾病的用户正在使用与专业运动员相同的矫形器，以防止关节磨损。SCALED是世界上第一个保护和柔性材料创新，在提供有针对性的保护程度的同时，允许最大的移动性。scale的自然灵感专利技术是一种形成互锁鳞片的外骨骼材料。我们的算法使用客户数据，在计算设计和3D打印的帮助下，创建独特的缩放材料。由此产生的“规模状”结构在用户群体需要的程度和程度上提供了保护，同时在所有其他方向上提供了最大的移动性，从而解决了不合身，僵硬的可穿戴设备的问题。SCALED材料在三个方面具有创新性：1\；首先，SCALED可穿戴设备提供有针对性的支持，同时允许最大的移动性和灵活性。其次，SCALED是大规模定制的，以满足每个用户群体的个性化需求。第三，SCALED是一种附加材料，用于改进现有的运动、医疗矫形器和工作安全行业的可穿戴防护设备。Innovate UK“创新女性”奖用于分析我们内部材料测试设备的数据。我们正在对材料特性进行建模，以确定定量材料规格。

SCALED(tm) is a London based, material technology company developing the next generation of flexible and protective body protection.At SCALED, we automize the design of personalised wearables to address the challenge of enabling long, healthy lives posed by our diverse and active societies. Current state-of-the-art protective wearables are standard-sized and modelled on the average European male. For most people, existing body protectors are rigid, bulky and uncomfortable. Mobility is restricted to a larger extent than needed and extensive use leads to a decrease of muscle mass. Discomfort and unnecessary restriction of movement encourages patients to remove the wearable earlier than advised, risking further injury or prolonged recovery time.Additionally, existing wearables lack any customization. Users suffering from a chronic disease such as Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) are using the same orthotics as the professional athlete who seeks to prevent joint abrasion. SCALED is the world's first protective and flexible material innovation that offers a targeted degree of protection while allowing maximum mobility.SCALED's nature inspired patented technology is an exoskeleton material formed into interlocking scales. Our algorithm uses customer data which, with the help of computational design and 3D printing, creates the unique SCALED material. The resulting 'scalelike' structure offers protection exactly at the degree and to the extent that the user group requires, whilst offering maximum mobility in all other directions, thus solving the problem of ill-fitting, rigid wearables.The SCALED material is innovative in three regards:1\. Firstly, SCALED wearables offer targeted support while allowing maximum mobility and flexibility.2\. Secondly, SCALED is mass-customizable to meet each user groups' individual needs.3\. Thirdly, SCALED is an add-on material, used to improve existing protective wearables in the sports, medical orthotics and work-safety industry.The Innovate UK 'Women in Innovation' Award is used for analysing the data from our in-house material testing rig. We are modelling for SCALED material properties to determine the quantitative material specifications.