Strong, Tough and Now Cheap: New Way to Process Metallic Glass Developed (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110512150815.htm)
QuoteScienceDaily (May 13, 2011) — Stronger than steel or titanium -- and just as tough -- metallic glass is an ideal material for everything from cell-phone cases to aircraft parts. Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a new technique that allows them to make metallic-glass parts utilizing the same inexpensive processes used to produce plastic parts. With this new method, they can heat a piece of metallic glass at a rate of a million degrees per second and then mold it into any shape in just a few milliseconds.
"We've redefined how you process metals," says William Johnson, the Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. "This is a paradigm shift in metallurgy." Johnson leads a team of researchers who are publishing their findings in the May 13 issue of the journal Science...
'Rapid Discharge Forming' will become a key material forming process by the look of it.
The Star Trek prophesies are coming true! Transparent aluminum has also been created! Thanks be to Scottie! http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/transparent-aluminum-created/ (http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/transparent-aluminum-created/)
Quote from: fester30 on May 14, 2011, 02:54:37 PM
The Star Trek prophesies are coming true! Transparent aluminum has also been created! Thanks be to Scottie! http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/transparent-aluminum-created/ (http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/transparent-aluminum-created/)
One day, you never know!
Shame this isn't transparent yet and limited to very small components for the time being, but once engineers get a new toy they're off!!!
Quote from: fester30 on May 14, 2011, 02:54:37 PM
The Star Trek prophesies are coming true! Transparent aluminum has also been created! Thanks be to Scottie! http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/transparent-aluminum-created/ (http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/transparent-aluminum-created/)
Ah! Mike's place... He had a forum once... I was a member there. Long ago...
Quote from: fester30 on May 14, 2011, 02:54:37 PM
The Star Trek prophesies are coming true! Transparent aluminum has also been created! Thanks be to Scottie! http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/transparent-aluminum-created/ (http://www.darkgovernment.com/news/transparent-aluminum-created/)
So what proportion of people see this thread and think transparent aluminium?
Ah anyway, LLAP to all of ya's.
It's the first thing I thought of, which is why I created the thread as I thought others would like it for the same reason.