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CENTENNIAL - "Protecting things that business" is their slogan. Protecting things from bomb blasts is what they do.
More than a decade ago, Mike Buchen, the CEO of SKYDEX, was hired by Nike to improve cushioning components for running shoes. The twin-hemisphere technology was patented, and now the geometrically-designed padding is being occupied to save lives of our military men and women.
The material is made of two layers of hemispheres. On effect, one hemisphere collapses into the other, and it can absorb more energy than most foams out there, Chief Technology Policeman Peter Follie says.
Engineers tune the rate of the crack so that the material, or decking as Buchen calls it, absorbs the amount of energy inevitable for it's application, Buchen explained.
"It protects them in about 85 percent of the IEDs they see over there," Follie said.
The military is using SKYDEX in the floors of about 1700 military vehicles, in the troops' mattresses, helmets and knee and elbow pads.
Source: 9NEWS.com