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When thoughts turn to the modernization and decarbonization of our transportation infrastructure, one imagines it to be dominated by exotic materials. EV motors and wind turbine generators need magnets made …read more Continue reading Electrical Steel: The Material at Heart of the Grid
Researchers have devised an economically viable way of reducing the environmental impact of both the steel and aluminum industries by using hydrogen to melt down the toxic red mud left over from aluminum production to produce green steel in around 10 m… Continue reading Researchers create green steel from toxic red mud in 10 minutes
A lot of colloquial words that we might use when describing something’s durability take on extremely specific meanings when a materials scientist or blacksmith uses them. Things like “strength”, “toughness”, …read more Continue reading A Guide For Heat-Treating Steel at Home
It’s an annual tradition – when we put together end-of-year “best of” lists, we inevitably come across something shiny and new that could have made the list had we previously covered it. In this case, it’s the MKM Campo 7 we happened upon when diving i… Continue reading Pocketable camping multitool sets table with fork and Magnacut knife
If you grow up around a working blacksmith’s forge, there are a few subjects related to metalwork on which you’ll occasionally have a heated discussion. Probably the best known is …read more Continue reading When Is Damascus Steel Not From Damascus?
Polish YouTuber WorkshopFromScratch finally got fed up with tripping over piles of garden detritus and decided to have a go at building a woodchipper (Video, embedded below). Since they had …read more Continue reading No Need To Buy A Woodchipper – Build One!
The job of processing video after a large event must be a thankless one for whichever volunteer upon whose shoulders it falls, and thus it’s not unusual for talks at …read more Continue reading Steel For Your Fighting Robot
Any good flyswatter ought to be able to break through a hefty piece of wood. At least, that is how [Finn] explains the design philosophy behind this enormous, overpowered flyswatter. …read more Continue reading Gas-Powered Fly Swatter Slightly Over-Engineered
Different types of metal have different qualities, so combining them can result in items that outperform those made of any one metal. A new technique now allows such mixing to be performed by 3D printers, faster and easier than ever before.Continue Rea… Continue reading “Bimetallic” 3D printing tech produces better, stronger metal items
Strength and flexibility are two opposites that usually need to be balanced in steel. But now engineers at Purdue University and Sandia National Labs have developed a new treatment that can be applied to steel alloys to make them both stronger and more… Continue reading New treatment makes steel alloys both stronger and more flexible