[TheForge] Olympic steel

[Jerry Smith]

Don't you know that alloy was named after Steve
Austen, the 6 Million dollar man :D

Jerry

--- Walter Mullett <wmullett at bright.net> wrote:

> I was just watching NBC's Matt Lauer do an interview
> with someone on
> technical improvements and their impact on the
> Olympics.  One of the things
> he showed was a luge runner.  He said it was made of
> a secret alloy called
> austenite and that it instantly got harder when it
> toughed the ice and that
> by the time the luge got to the bottom of the hill,
> it was a different
> material.
>  
> Obviously an over-simplification.  As I understand
> it, true austenite is
> only stable at very high temperatures and that
> nickel and manganese have to
> be added to make it stable at normal temperatures. 
> Is this material
> different and stable at low temperatures.  What
> would be the advantage of
> that?
>  
> Walt
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