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Carbon Fiber's Days Are Numbered==Researchers create exceptionallystrong and lightweight new metal
"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." http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy. |
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Carbon Fiber's Days Are Numbered==Researchers create exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal
Per sms:
http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy. That would be welcome news for windsurfers. Carbon-fiber booms and masts have gone out of sight since the aircraft industry bid up the price of carbon fiber..... so maybe the aircraft industry will transition over to the new stuff if/when the cost ever becomes competitive. -- Pete Cresswell |
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Carbon Fiber's Days Are Numbered==Researchers createexceptionally strong and lightweight new metal
On 12/25/2015 8:45 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per sms: http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy. That would be welcome news for windsurfers. Carbon-fiber booms and masts have gone out of sight since the aircraft industry bid up the price of carbon fiber..... so maybe the aircraft industry will transition over to the new stuff if/when the cost ever becomes competitive. The aircraft industry has had mixed results with CF. It's very difficult to repair minor damage. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/business/boeings-787-poses-new-challenges-for-repair-teams.html I don't think Boeing likes anyone using the "P word" like the NYT uses: "The thin plastic skin on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner is an engineering marvel..." |
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Carbon Fiber's Days Are Numbered==Researchers createexceptionally strong and lightweight new metal
On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 12:07:25 PM UTC-5, sms wrote:
On 12/25/2015 8:45 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote: Per sms: http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy. That would be welcome news for windsurfers. Carbon-fiber booms and masts have gone out of sight since the aircraft industry bid up the price of carbon fiber..... so maybe the aircraft industry will transition over to the new stuff if/when the cost ever becomes competitive. The aircraft industry has had mixed results with CF. It's very difficult to repair minor damage. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/business/boeings-787-poses-new-challenges-for-repair-teams.html I don't think Boeing likes anyone using the "P word" like the NYT uses: "The thin plastic skin on Boeing's 787 Dreamliner is an engineering marvel..." .................. Boing's plasticraft is surfaced with CF sheets that are not structural AFAIK Magnesium corrodes. No mention of this in the intro I read. Yes, a 1 pound bicycle will surface...not this year or next. |
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Carbon Fiber's Days Are Numbered==Researchers createexceptionally strong and lightweight new metal
Boing's plasticraft is surfaced with CF sheets that are not structural AFAIK Magnesium corrodes. No mention of this in the intro I read. Yes, a 1 pound bicycle will surface...not this year or next. duh we retract.....read that as Mn not Mg .... Mn corrodes, Mg burns. |
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Carbon Fiber's Days Are Numbered==Researchers create exceptionallystrong and lightweight new metal
On 12/25/2015 10:45 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per sms: http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy. That would be welcome news for windsurfers. Carbon-fiber booms and masts have gone out of sight since the aircraft industry bid up the price of carbon fiber..... so maybe the aircraft industry will transition over to the new stuff if/when the cost ever becomes competitive. Are there Chinese windsurf suppliers? And we pause to note the previous industry takeovers by cast magnesium (Kirk Precision) and beryllium (Beyond Fabrications). As the great sage Yogi Berra quipped, it's hard to make predictions, especially about the future. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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Carbon Fiber's Days Are Numbered==Researchers createexceptionally strong and lightweight new metal
On Friday, December 25, 2015 at 7:17:34 AM UTC-8, sms wrote:
"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." http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnolo...wsid=42203.php By next Christmas everyone will have donated their CF bicycles to the poor, and will be buying replacements made of this new alloy. Gee, it's 1990 and metal-matrix all over again -- although the Specialized/Duralcan version used aluminum and ceramic particles as opposed to magnesium. Merry Christmas! -- Jay Beattie. |
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Carbon Fiber's Days Are Numbered==Researchers createexceptionally strong and lightweight new metal
the intro showed up in kayak/canoe with the next wag pointing that metals dent so forgettaboutit..
so there are how many NEW potentially structural materials out there ? there graphene and now MgSiO.. and ? Amuzi, Slocum and I all started before fiberglass...Berra's landing craft oused the first wide use age of plastic with waterproof rifle envelops.. I had a cold light night light for the hallway ...green circle plugged into wall AC. Think, he said. Boing, as I read, has 400 engineers on the space capsule. Boing recently dissed SpaceX on super cold O2 saying the try was for no evident purpose worth the trouble.? maybe it is/was/will be ? Frod, World's No. 1 truck builder recently began manufacturing truck bodies of the exotic metal aluminum. Beryllium ? B is deadly toxic...what was B used for ? touch screens ? I have a new Garmin 78sc Garmin swapped for the old 76sc...now I find the 78 is/was obsolete from new and more expensive touch screen Garmin GPS. 'yeah I know this is quicksand but the Montana sez we go straight on .....' I would believe SMS posts with humor .... but there are exceptions ie the fuel cell, wind power, Cesium batteries.... Cassini, the space craft is winding down. Take a look after dark. |
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Carbon Fiber's Days Are Numbered==Researchers createexceptionally strong and lightweight new metal
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