News tagged with brittle materials
NRL scientists study cracks in brittle materials
Nov 20, 2008 |
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The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is part of an international team of scientists that is learning more about how cracks form in brittle materials. The team used both computer modeling and experimentation to investigate ...
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Nanomaterials Show Unexpected Strength Under Stress
Mar 12, 2008 |
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In yet another twist on the strangeness of the nanoworld, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland-College Park have discovered that materials such as ...
Silicon brittle? Not this kind!
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Silicon, the most important semiconductor material of all, is usually considered to be as brittle and breakable as window glass. On the nanometer scale, however, the substance exhibits very ...
'Super paper:' New nanopaper more break-resistant than cast iron
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 09, 2008 |
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Researchers in Sweden and Japan report development of a new type of paper that resists breaking when pulled almost as well as cast iron. The new material, called "cellulose nanopaper," is made of sub-microscopic ...
Bone's material flaws lead to disease: Tiny rifts create fragility of brittle bone disease
Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The weak tendons and fragile bones characteristic of osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, stem from a genetic mutation that causes the incorrect substitution of a single amino ...
NIST building hydrogen pipeline laboratory
Feb 05, 2008 |
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The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology is constructing a new laboratory that's designed to test materials for hydrogen pipelines.
New Method for Creating Tough Metallic Glass Composites
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have developed a new strategy for creating "liquid metal" that makes it able to bend significantly without breaking, while retaining a strength twice that of titanium. ...
Big impact of nanocracks
Jan 18, 2006 |
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An MIT researcher's atom-by-atom simulation of cracks forming and spreading may help explain how materials fail in nanoscale devices, airplanes and even in the Earth itself during a quake. This work, which ...
From mirror to mist: Cracking the secret of fracture instabilities
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Jan 20, 2006 |
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Researchers from Max Planck Institute for Metals Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have performed atom-by-atom investigations of how cracks propagate in brittle materials.
A new approach to engineering for extreme environments (w/ Video)
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Composite materials such as fiberglass, which take on a mix of properties of their constituent compounds, have been around for decades. Now, an MIT materials scientist is taking composites ...
Nature's fine designs: Scientists find modern lessons in ancient creations
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nature and its bottom-up processes for creating robust and responsive materials are inspiring new generations of synthetic materials and creative design.
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