Ryzing Technologies is a design and fabrication firm focused on enabling the use of engineered textiles in non-traditional contexts. With project applications and products including Inflatable Structures, Tensile Membrane Structures, Specialized Tents categories, the firm offers the engineering and prototyping service to have other companies looking to benefit from the use of engineered textiles in their facilities, projects, events, and architectural designs. For the US Army Natick (MA) Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, Ryzing is continuing development of an adjustable, reusable platform for expeditionary military shelters. The current US Army basecamp provider deploy their 150-man basecamp in less than four hours. However, the shelters are typically deployed on wooden decks that take days to deploy, require special crews of engineers and carpenters and must be disposed of after the base camp is moved. Although the platforms are inexpensive, speedy deployment and dismatntlement can be critical. Work is now underway at Ryzing to develop a platform system that can be deployed in hours by soldiers and also can be packaged for redeployment with the basecamp several times: less costly; reducing response time; minimizing transportation burden; reducing amount of waste produced. This product could also serve military hospitals, command and control units and the basecamps of other military branches along with several commercial applications. Ryzing has also been a part of the development of a deployable hull system for amphibious armored vehicles for the department of the Navy, consulting on structural analysis of air-supported domes and development of soft, inflatable robotic technologies. The goal for the inflatable robot technologies - partially funded by the State of Virginia; CIT- is to have an articulating, robotic structure that can safely work alongside humans in medical, industrial and military applications and has been successfully demonstrated with a series of prototypes.
