Boerseun Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Spider silk and nanotubes are very strong in terms of tensile strength. But how do they handle compression?:naughty: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chacmool Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 The toughest material is sperm. After all, it holds together a whole living being for several years... :naughty: InfiniteNow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted November 29, 2006 Report Share Posted November 29, 2006 Spider silk and nanotubes are very strong in terms of tensile strength. But how do they handle compression?:)About as well as, say, rubber bands. I.e., zero. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gribbon Posted November 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 I mean as in like a meatl would be....so it can't be bent easily...I don't know what the scientific term for that is.....Titanium isn't strong though, or at least not in size to strength ratio.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 You might benefit by exploring the concepts of metalurgy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy Cheers. :hyper: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwes99_03 Posted November 30, 2006 Report Share Posted November 30, 2006 I mean as in like a meatl would be....so it can't be bent easily...I don't know what the scientific term for that is.....Titanium isn't strong though, or at least not in size to strength ratio.... You'd probable be talking stress/strain or tensile strength. There are lots of different ways to test materials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gribbon Posted December 1, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 The links just send me round in circles....there doesn't seem to be a way of measuring the ability of the material to resist being bent...it's not the same as what would snap it if it were made into a wire..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwes99_03 Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 It is called a strain gauge. Strain gauges are used to measure how far a material bends out of position. You can measure how much force it takes to bend the material with all kinds of force measuring instruments and then do a simple division of the force by the amount of strain measured and you have a ratio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrotex Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 The links just send me round in circles....there doesn't seem to be a way of measuring the ability of the material to resist being bent...it's not the same as what would snap it if it were made into a wire.....I think what you're looking for is "rigidity". From the Wictionary:rigid (comparative more rigid, superlative most rigid)1. stiff rather than flexible 2. fixed rather than moving 3. rigorous and unbending 4. uncompromising Related terms: rigidity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwes99_03 Posted December 1, 2006 Report Share Posted December 1, 2006 Each configuration will lend different results. The width of a wire for example will determine some of it's characteristics. Is it in block form or in the form of an i-beam. These are structural limitations of the material. They do not tell us much about the material until we compare two identical structures made out of two different materials. Then we have a comparitive view of the material to state which is stronger for this structural use. In discussing strength of materials one must be clear as to what kind of strength one is looking for. Is maleability a strength in your mind? Then I would say gold one of the strongest. If you think that cutting other materials is a strength, then I'd say diamond chips are strong, but raw diamond isn't that strong. You must give parameters for discussion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkain101 Posted December 2, 2006 Report Share Posted December 2, 2006 There is this new carbon nano material. I forget the name and the deatails exactly. Go look it up. Its a material 2000 times stronger tensile than steelit is 4000 times lighter The numbers say you could use it as an elavator to space for small tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anglepose Posted December 5, 2006 Report Share Posted December 5, 2006 An answer to an earlier reply on how to create enough heat for TiC check this link out, this is how they heat JET for fusion reactions (100,000,000-200,000,000 kelvin) 10 times the heat needed to make TiC .Fusion Basics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gribbon Posted December 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caughtWill we realise we cannot eat money. You stole my signature!:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quadrapod Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 as far as I know I’m pretty sure the strongest is carbon nanotubes. they are bonded into strings at the molecular level and were viewed as a way to build the space elevator ( Space elevator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) they cant be compressed by anything besides maybe a star they don’t pull apart except in extreme circumstances and they are light weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Pretty good idea to read the thread prior to posting: http://hypography.com/forums/engineering-applied-science/9239-whats-strongest-material-available-2.html#post145308 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arkain101 Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Carbon nanotubes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gribbon Posted January 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 Ahhh....thanks...But is there any chance of this becoming economically feasible in the near future? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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