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Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created

Started bySam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
First post2015-12-26 20:11 -0600
Last post2015-12-27 03:13 +0000
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  Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 20:11 -0600
    Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-12-27 13:32 +1100
      Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 20:46 -0600
    Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-27 02:44 +0000
      Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-12-26 20:48 -0600
        Re: Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-12-27 03:13 +0000

#541724 — Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created

FromSam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Date2015-12-26 20:11 -0600
SubjectExceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created
Message-ID<p9Kdna27R5ZU1eLLnZ2dnUU7-bOdnZ2d@giganews.com>
Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created
> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-exceptionally-strong-lightweight-metal.html

> A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
> Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light
> structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus,
> or stiffness-to-weight ratio. The new metal is composed of magnesium
> infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide
> nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes,
> spacecraft, and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as
> in mobile electronics and biomedical devices.
>
> To create the super-strong but lightweight metal, the team found a
> new way to disperse and stabilize nanoparticles in molten metals.
> They also developed a scalable manufacturing method that could pave
> the way for more high-performance lightweight metals. The research
> was published today in Nature.


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#541726

FromSylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Date2015-12-27 13:32 +1100
Message-ID<de90ugFbrkdU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#541724
On 27/12/2015 1:11 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-exceptionally-strong-lightweight-metal.html
>
>> A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
>> Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light
>> structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus,
>> or stiffness-to-weight ratio. The new metal is composed of magnesium
>> infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide
>> nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes,
>> spacecraft, and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as
>> in mobile electronics and biomedical devices.
>>
>> To create the super-strong but lightweight metal, the team found a
>> new way to disperse and stabilize nanoparticles in molten metals.
>> They also developed a scalable manufacturing method that could pave
>> the way for more high-performance lightweight metals. The research
>> was published today in Nature.
>
>

We need to know its fatigue behaviour before getting too excited.

Sylvia.

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#541730

FromSam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Date2015-12-26 20:46 -0600
Message-ID<p9Kdna-7R5a-zOLLnZ2dnUU7-bMAAAAA@giganews.com>
In reply to#541726
On 12/26/15 8:32 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 27/12/2015 1:11 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
>> Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created
>>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-exceptionally-strong-lightweight-metal.html
>>
>>> A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
>>> Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light
>>> structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus,
>>> or stiffness-to-weight ratio. The new metal is composed of magnesium
>>> infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide
>>> nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes,
>>> spacecraft, and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as
>>> in mobile electronics and biomedical devices.
>>>
>>> To create the super-strong but lightweight metal, the team found a
>>> new way to disperse and stabilize nanoparticles in molten metals.
>>> They also developed a scalable manufacturing method that could pave
>>> the way for more high-performance lightweight metals. The research
>>> was published today in Nature.
>>
>>
>
> We need to know its fatigue behaviour before getting too excited.
>
> Sylvia.

   You are correct.



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#541728

Fromjimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Date2015-12-27 02:44 +0000
Message-ID<7tv3lc-3v4.ln1@mail.specsol.com>
In reply to#541724
Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-exceptionally-strong-lightweight-metal.html
> 
>> A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
>> Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light
>> structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus,
>> or stiffness-to-weight ratio. The new metal is composed of magnesium
>> infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide
>> nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes,
>> spacecraft, and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as
>> in mobile electronics and biomedical devices.
>>
>> To create the super-strong but lightweight metal, the team found a
>> new way to disperse and stabilize nanoparticles in molten metals.
>> They also developed a scalable manufacturing method that could pave
>> the way for more high-performance lightweight metals. The research
>> was published today in Nature.
 
What's the cost compared to 6061-T6 aluminum and is it weldable and
machineable?



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Jim Pennino

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#541731

FromSam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com>
Date2015-12-26 20:48 -0600
Message-ID<p9Kdna67R5blzOLLnZ2dnUU7-bOdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#541728
On 12/26/15 8:44 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created
>>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-exceptionally-strong-lightweight-metal.html
>>
>>> A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
>>> Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light
>>> structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus,
>>> or stiffness-to-weight ratio. The new metal is composed of magnesium
>>> infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide
>>> nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes,
>>> spacecraft, and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as
>>> in mobile electronics and biomedical devices.
>>>
>>> To create the super-strong but lightweight metal, the team found a
>>> new way to disperse and stabilize nanoparticles in molten metals.
>>> They also developed a scalable manufacturing method that could pave
>>> the way for more high-performance lightweight metals. The research
>>> was published today in Nature.
>
> What's the cost compared to 6061-T6 aluminum and is it weldable and
> machineable?
>
>
>

   6061-T6 will be hard to beat.


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#541736

Fromjimp@specsol.spam.sux.com
Date2015-12-27 03:13 +0000
Message-ID<6k14lc-c45.ln1@mail.specsol.com>
In reply to#541731
Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/26/15 8:44 PM, jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>> Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal created
>>>> http://phys.org/news/2015-12-exceptionally-strong-lightweight-metal.html
>>>
>>>> A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of
>>>> Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light
>>>> structural metal with extremely high specific strength and modulus,
>>>> or stiffness-to-weight ratio. The new metal is composed of magnesium
>>>> infused with a dense and even dispersal of ceramic silicon carbide
>>>> nanoparticles. It could be used to make lighter airplanes,
>>>> spacecraft, and cars, helping to improve fuel efficiency, as well as
>>>> in mobile electronics and biomedical devices.
>>>>
>>>> To create the super-strong but lightweight metal, the team found a
>>>> new way to disperse and stabilize nanoparticles in molten metals.
>>>> They also developed a scalable manufacturing method that could pave
>>>> the way for more high-performance lightweight metals. The research
>>>> was published today in Nature.
>>
>> What's the cost compared to 6061-T6 aluminum and is it weldable and
>> machineable?
>>
>>
>>
> 
>   6061-T6 will be hard to beat.
 
Especially since the price of magnesium is about 3 times that of aluminum,
and it both burns and corrodes rather easily.

One highly doubts the subject of this breathelss press release will be
of any value at all.

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Jim Pennino

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