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A new way to make lighter, stronger steel -- in a flash
Ohio State University ^
| June 9, 2011
| Pam Frost Gorder
Posted on 06/09/2011 1:56:03 PM PDT by decimon
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Detroit entrepreneur surprised university engineers here recently, when he invented a heat-treatment that makes steel 7 percent stronger than any steel on record – in less than 10 seconds.
In fact, the steel, now trademarked as Flash Bainite, has tested stronger and more shock-absorbing than the most common titanium alloys used by industry.
Now the entrepreneur is working with researchers at Ohio State University to better understand the science behind the new treatment, called flash processing.
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Yet, when inventor Gary Cola initially approached him, Babu didn’t know what to think.
“The process that Gary described – it shouldn’t have worked,” he said. “I didn’t believe him. So he took my students and me to Detroit.”
Cola showed them his proprietary lab setup at SFP Works, LLC., where rollers carried steel sheets through flames as hot as 1100 degrees Celsius and then into a cooling liquid bath.
Though the typical temperature and length of time for hardening varies by industry, most steels are heat-treated at around 900 degrees Celsius for a few hours. Others are heated at similar temperatures for days.
Cola’s entire process took less than 10 seconds.
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(Excerpt) Read more at researchnews.osu.edu ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Science
KEYWORDS: debt; default; globalism; manufacturing; steel
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posted on
06/09/2011 1:56:04 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
IBTRSC (In Before The Rearden Steel Comment)
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posted on
06/09/2011 1:56:30 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
beat me by a few seconds.....where’s Dagny?
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posted on
06/09/2011 1:57:28 PM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(American Thinker Columnist / Rush ghost contributor)
To: decimon
IWTRSC
(In with the Rearden Steel Comment)
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posted on
06/09/2011 1:58:44 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Ego Nunquam Ubi Sub Ubi!)
To: decimon
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posted on
06/09/2011 1:58:56 PM PDT
by
GSP.FAN
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: decimon
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posted on
06/09/2011 1:59:25 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: decimon
7
posted on
06/09/2011 2:00:59 PM PDT
by
Emperor Palpatine
(Here you are in the Ninth - two men out and two men on.)
To: decimon
In other news, Atlas Shrugged.
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posted on
06/09/2011 2:07:04 PM PDT
by
ez
("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, Paradise Lost)
To: decimon
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posted on
06/09/2011 2:08:07 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
To: KC Burke
They don’t mind boasting but if they can back up the boasts then good for them.
10
posted on
06/09/2011 2:12:54 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon; All
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posted on
06/09/2011 2:13:25 PM PDT
by
PeaceBeWithYou
(De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
To: decimon; waterhill; ixtl
Real life Atlas Shrugged? (((ping)))
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posted on
06/09/2011 2:18:50 PM PDT
by
Envisioning
( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
To: decimon
7% stronger than the strongest steel on record Kewl!
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posted on
06/09/2011 2:21:57 PM PDT
by
Errant
To: decimon
kryron .. stronger then steel. able to withstand most rounds. no penetration in any of the tests i've heard of yet. just completing its first rounds of testing. (symbol
BORK)
they built a humvee out of kryron. it withstood an ide without penetration (tires, of course)
it also took a a tank round (i don't know the composition of the round) and it only dented.
some crazy stuff.
being pushed for vests, inserts, helicopters, humvees, etc
i'd like some for home :)
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posted on
06/09/2011 2:52:07 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: decimon
kryron .. stronger then steel. able to withstand most rounds. no penetration in any of the tests i've heard of yet. just completing its first rounds of testing. (symbol
BORK)
they built a humvee out of kryron. it withstood an ide without penetration (tires, of course)
it also took a tank round (i don't know the composition of the round) and it only dented.
some crazy stuff.
being pushed for vests, inserts, helicopters, humvees, etc
i'd like some for home :)
15
posted on
06/09/2011 2:52:27 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: decimon
How many hours before the Chinese steal or buy the process?
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posted on
06/09/2011 3:00:01 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act. - - Orwell)
To: sten
improvised device explosive (ide)
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posted on
06/09/2011 3:01:56 PM PDT
by
Rudder
(The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
To: decimon
IBTRSC (In Before The Rearden Steel Comment) Does this mean that high speed rail is now gonna make sense? ;-)
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posted on
06/09/2011 3:03:37 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: decimon
Flash Bainite also is my alter ego superhero name.
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posted on
06/09/2011 3:04:34 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: decimon
Score one for good old capitalism.
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posted on
06/09/2011 3:08:16 PM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(My new business is great! I make prayer rugs w/ bombs inside. Prophets are going thru the roof!)
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