[TheForge] amorphous steel

[Clyde Wynia]

There is another article on the subject at
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/businessline/blnus/08281106.htm

GHS wrote:
>
> Andy, who you kidding?
> Didn't they say $100 lb.?

        They said such materials can be as much as that, as I
        recall. The article also said that the discoverers
        anticipate devising processes where amprphous steels
        would become cheap and plentiful.  This is the cue I
        took to mean that the material's properties are gained
        by its physical chemistry and not through elaborate
        processing.  If in fact this sort of steel were to become
        commonly available for, say, structural applications,
        there is no way that it would be able to be so in the
        hands of some "who gives a crap, my brain stays in the
        off position" worker if the material's handling requirements
        were so stringent.  How would a steel frame building be
        welded if the heat destroyed its properties?  Riveting?
        Bolting?  Perhaps, but that limits applications severely;
        far more so than I would have gathered from the article.
        I would also imagine that were the requirements that
        tight, it would have been mentioned by the author.  OTOH,
        reason doesn't always win out in such things. :)
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