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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers have found a way to determine whether glass will be brittle, or will have the ability to bend without breaking. The team wrote in the journal Nature Communications about how they've identified a temperature that allows you to determine whether you will be forming a brittle piece of glass, or ductile, which refers to a piece of glass' toughness. There is a temperature at which glass can become too viscous for...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ductile iron pipe, the durable and environmentally friendly choice for water utilities around the world, earned the coveted SMaRT© Sustainable Product Certification, an independent rating system for the sustainability of a product throughout its life cycle, the Ductile Iron Pipe Research Association (DIPRA) announced today. Ductile iron pipe is only the second product in the buried infrastructure industry to earn this certification....
Rice University researchers surprised to see twin-induced brittle-like fractures in gold nanowires Thin gold wires often used in high-end electronic applications are wonderfully flexible as well as conductive. But those qualities don't necessarily apply to the same wires at the nanoscale. A new study from Rice University finds gold wires less than 20 nanometers wide can become "brittle-like" under stress. It appears in the journal Advanced Functional Materials. The paper by Rice...
Materials scientists have known that a metal's strength (or weakness) is governed by dislocation interactions, a messy exchange of intersecting fault lines that move or ripple within metallic crystals. But what happens when metals are engineered at the nanoscale? Is there a way to make metals stronger and more ductile by manipulating their nanostructures?Brown University scientists may have figured out a way. In a paper published in Nature, Huajian Gao and researchers from the University of...
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed a way to make some notoriously brittle materials ductile"”yet stronger than ever"”simply by reducing their size.The work, by Dongchan Jang, senior postdoctoral scholar, and Julia R. Greer, assistant professor of materials science and mechanics at Caltech, could eventually lead to the development of innovative, superstrong, yet light and damage-tolerant materials. These new materials could be used as components...
By Ciulik, J It has been an exciting year in refractory metals. We had a very interesting symposium at the TMS 2008 Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Our "Refractory Metals 2009" symposium covered three areas: processing of refractory metals, characterization of refractory metals, and properties of refractory metals. Twenty-three presentations in three sessions made the symposium this year the largest and best attended we have had since I began attending refractory metals symposia (in 2002)....
