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[What's Burning?]

We'll see this in F1 next year perhaps?

Link to the full article.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2 ... m-as-.html

By smashing an aluminum alloy between two anvils, researchers have created a metal that's as strong as steel but much lighter. If the process can be commercialized, it could yield better components for aircraft and automobiles, as well as metal armor light enough for soldiers to wear in battle.

Aluminum's main advantage is its lightness. But the second-most-abundant metal in Earth's crust is also a weakling: It breaks apart under loads that heavier metals such as steel shoulder easily. For decades, scientists have been looking for a way to manufacture the aluminum equivalent of titanium, a lightweight metal that's stronger than steel, but without titanium's high cost.

In the new study, an international team of materials scientists turned to an emerging metal-processing technique called high-pressure torsion (HPT). Basically, HPT involves clamping a thin disk of metal to a cylindrical anvil and pressing it against another anvil with a force of about 60,000 kilograms per square centimeter, all while turning one anvil slowly. The researchers also kept the processed samples at room temperature for over a month, in a common metallurgical process called natural aging. The deformation under the enormous pressure plus the aging alters the basic structure of metals at the nanoscale—or distances measured in billionths of a meter.

[elfinitty]

Wow,thats unbelievable!It would be cool to see that in F1 cars,perhaps they would be better technology.But this thread....makes me remember chemistry.Back to school in 2 days.Back to my fave(!) subject chemistry..

[vaptin]

I'll see if I can casually ask a lecturer about it

Seems cool though, haven't got the time to look it up properly now though.

[bud]

We'll see this in F1 next year perhaps?

Probably be too expensive still in its infancy. It could be used for some components, i dont see it replacing carbon fibre for the aero parts though.

[vaptin]

We'll see this in F1 next year perhaps?

Probably be too expensive still in its infancy. It could be used for some components, i dont see it replacing carbon fibre for the aero parts though.

Is it lighter than Carbon Fibre (which I guess it is), in that case may interfere with the minimum weight requirements.

[f1ea]

Is it lighter than Carbon Fibre (which I guess it is), in that case may interfere with the minimum weight requirements.

No problem having lighter cars... they use ballast to compensate if they need to in order to reach the minnimum weight.

[What's Burning?]

I guess the ideal here would be to use in linkages and joints where strength is key and titanium is ridiculously expensive.

[darwin dali]

Surprised none of the Brits has pointed out it's 'aluminium' where they hail from

[texasmr2]

Surprised none of the Brits has pointed out it's 'aluminium' where they hail from

The whole "two nations devided by a common language" comes to mind .

[scotty]

I think this metal would take a couple years more to make it into F1 - it seems they haven't gone through a complete enough range of tests (how it reacts under widely varying temperatures, for example) yet.

Surprised none of the Brits has pointed out it's 'aluminium' where they hail from

Because that argument has been done to death on the internet many times already.

[bud]

Surprised none of the Brits has pointed out it's 'aluminium' where they hail from

It's Aluminium down here too! Think in every English speaking country apart from America and their lil bro Canukland

[What's Burning?]

Surprised none of the Brits has pointed out it's 'aluminium' where they hail from

It's Aluminium down here too! Think in every English speaking country apart from America and their lil bro Canukland

During the great depression letters were rationed and so Americans got rid of unessential I's and U's.

It's saved nearly three trillion characters to date.