Posted on 09/04/2024 3:38:26 AM PDT by Jonty30
Researchers at MIT have developed a new approach for creating titanium alloys that surpass traditional trade-offs between strength and ductility.
By adjusting chemical composition, lattice structure, and processing techniques, they’ve created materials with enhanced mechanical properties. This innovation could be used to produce metals with exceptional combinations of strength and ductility, for aerospace and other applications.
Titanium alloys are essential structural materials for a wide variety of applications, from aerospace and energy infrastructure to biomedical equipment. But like most metals, optimizing their properties tends to involve a tradeoff between two key characteristics: strength and ductility. Stronger materials tend to be less deformable, and deformable materials tend to be mechanically weak.
Breakthrough in Titanium Alloy Research at MIT Now, researchers at MIT, collaborating with researchers at ATI Specialty Materials, have discovered an approach for creating new titanium alloys that can exceed this historical tradeoff, leading to new alloys with exceptional combinations of strength and ductility, which might lead to new applications.
The findings are described in the journal Advanced Materials, in a paper by Shaolou Wei ScD ’22, Professor C. Cem Tasan, postdoc Kyung-Shik Kim, and John Foltz from ATI Inc. The improvements, the team says, arise from tailoring the chemical composition and the lattice structure of the alloy, while also adjusting the processing techniques used to produce the material at an industrial scale.
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I want a sword. Then I want to go back in time and join the Crusades.
I’m glad they’re making this stuff better.
I look at how the US treats Israel and I just think that we are the worst alloy ever.
ALLOY THERE, MATE!
If it is easier to machine in my shop...l I will make fortunes. I mostly refuse titanium machining. Just not worth the headache.
My most hated alloy is 30x stainless. I hate the stuff.
Now they can make 30X + 1
My son does very little titanium machining in his shop.
Good ol’ tritanium
This story is not just about titanium. They found the principle to customizing titanium alloys. Presumably, you can adapt the principles to any metal you want.
Iron, tin, magnesium, aluminum, titnium, nickel, copper.
With alloys like this, who needs antimony?
“..titnium...”
Tell us more...
It’s an alloy, ok?
Just horsing around, J.
I know you were. :)
That’s why I didn’t admit to a spelling mistake and made it an alloy instead.
Chinese reporting the same breakthrough any day now.
Those puns reflect a criminal metality. I’m calling the coppers to put you in irons.
Maybe we’ll get some interesting copper alloys out of this.
Ductile bronze?
“This innovation could be used to produce metals with exceptional combinations of strength and ductility,”
Wouldn’t be Biden proof..nothing is.
Seven days without a pun makes one weak!
If you go back, think artillery, chemical weapons, and repeating rifles, please.
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