A storm shutter assembly for building openings where the several articulated contiguous blade assemblies are housed within a frame assembly and selectively moved between two extreme positions from approximately 4 degrees to 180 degrees. The holding material comprises a fiber material having a thickness and being provided with a friction layer comprising inorganic colloidal particles on an outer peripheral surface andor an inner peripheral surface of the fiber material. The memory can be arranged in numerous erasable blocks andor sub-blocks.