[TheForge] amorphous steel

[Andy Vida]

Gabriel Cain wrote:
> 
> Clyde Wynia wrote:
> > But can you forge it?
> > New amorphous steel is twice as strong
> >
> 
> It sounds like you can:
> 
> "When you produce a block of some metal and want to shape it, you can do
> machining," Poon told UPI. "However, if you can treat these guys as
> plastics, you can build a mold, and then when you cast it, you can just
> cast it in. You can squeeze it, compress it, deform it, flatten it out,
> shape it like plastics."
> 
> That says forgeable to me.  Now, there may be issues related to what
> heat you can take it to, and the effects of heat on it (i.e., crystal
> growth issues?)
> 
> But it does sound like that it's at least forgeable under some conditions.

	Very definitely.  Sounds like the biggest concern is
	lack of ductility.  They'll engineer their way around
	that, I'm sure.  They always do. :)

	-Adny