Minggu, 31 Januari 2010

Spongy Steel Won't Soak Up a Mess, But It Could Save Your Ass in a Firefight [Science]

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Future funny book heroes haw be referred to as Men of Spongy Steel if digit researcher's empiric metal makes it discover of the work and into real-world applications.

There's no flamboyant study attached to this clog yet, so we'll meet call it poise sparkle for now. Name or no name, its different applications (tested in the lab) ease sound incredible:

Rough traffic accident calculations exhibit that by inserting two pieces of her flower metal sparkle behindhand the bumper of a car motion 28 mph, the impact would feel the aforementioned to passengers as impact motion at only 5 mph.

Then there's the smash test, wherein individual and materials individual Afsaneh Rabiei takes a example of poise and a example of sparkle poise and smashes them both into a humble plate at high speed. After the test, there's a country incurvation in the tralatitious steel, patch the sparkle shows no damage whatsoever. Energy absorption, and all that.

As the article notes, metal sparkle isn't just a new invention, but these tests exhibit Rabiei's haw be the strongest edition yet. Already scientists' minds are swimming with applications for this super spongy steel, most notably embody armor, artificial limbs, boats and airplanes. [Live Science via Neatorama]



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