{"id":241893,"date":"2026-07-30T20:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/neutrons-reveal-how-friction-stir-welding-could-strengthen-steel-armor"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T01:34:33","slug":"neutrons-reveal-how-friction-stir-welding-could-strengthen-steel-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/neutrons-reveal-how-friction-stir-welding-could-strengthen-steel-armor","title":{"rendered":"Neutrons reveal how friction stir welding could strengthen steel armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HVVlvX86YCI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Using neutrons at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from The Ohio State University are studying residual stress caused by friction stir welding (FSW) to reveal how to strengthen armor steel welds, like those used in military vehicles. Their findings were <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0924013626000038\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of Materials Processing Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are trying to develop a new way to join armor steel that produces joints with better ballistic and blast performance,\u201d said Antonio Ramirez, a professor of materials science and engineering at OSU. \u201cIn the end, we want to be able to make structures that perform better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s results will help fine-tune welding parameters to create a roadmap for engineering better armor systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using neutrons at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, researchers from The Ohio State University are studying residual stress caused by friction stir welding (FSW) to reveal how to strengthen armor steel welds, like those used in military vehicles. Their findings were published in the Journal of Materials Processing Technology. \u201cWe are trying [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241893","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}