{"id":107052,"date":"2020-05-13T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T05:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/super-steel-breakthrough-makes-for-stronger-and-tougher-alloy"},"modified":"2020-05-13T22:03:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T05:03:17","slug":"super-steel-breakthrough-makes-for-stronger-and-tougher-alloy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/super-steel-breakthrough-makes-for-stronger-and-tougher-alloy","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSuper steel\u201d breakthrough makes for stronger and tougher alloy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/super-steel-breakthrough-makes-for-stronger-and-tougher-alloy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a frustrating fact that whenever you try to improve materials like steel, you end up introducing new weaknesses at the same time. It\u2019s a balancing act between different properties. Now, engineers have developed a new type of \u201csuper steel\u201d that defies this trade-off, staying strong while still resisting fractures.<\/p>\n<p>For materials like steel, there are three main properties that need to be balanced \u2013 strength, toughness and ductility. The first two might sound like the same thing, but there\u2019s an important difference. Strength describes how much of a load a material can take before it deforms or fails, measured in Pascals of pressure. Toughness, meanwhile, measures how much energy it takes to fracture a material.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, glass has relatively high strength but low toughness, so it\u2019s able to support quite a bit of weight but it doesn\u2019t take much energy to break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a frustrating fact that whenever you try to improve materials like steel, you end up introducing new weaknesses at the same time. It\u2019s a balancing act between different properties. Now, engineers have developed a new type of \u201csuper steel\u201d that defies this trade-off, staying strong while still resisting fractures. For materials like steel, there [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}