The KneePads

The purpose of the bone project is supposed to highlight a material that would normally be discarded without second use. After an animal is slaughtered its bones are immediately deposed of. Since our society that is primarily a meat-eating oriented society, there are a massive amounts of bones that could be readily available. Charlett Wenig developed several different methods and techniques through experimentation, in order to discover the best way to use their structural characteristic of bones and mechanical properties. Some of the bones were mechanically altered, while others were modified through using varies chemicals. The ability to bend bones of larger animals, with a very complex bone structure is in theory possible, but in practice hard to accomplished. In cooperation with Institute for Chemistry of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg experiments were executed to extract particular articles of animal bones and to create a procedure to bend bones and harden them in a new form. Due to their complex structural composition bones are able to remain stable and retain their shape even under massive amounts of pressure. Therefore, is might also be possible to reuse bone material in the use of protective gear for sports. Since most sports protective gear is made of synthetic material, that has the potential to break and end up not actually protecting the user, a better, more environmentally friendly alternative.