Darth Wong wrote:Dendrobius wrote:OK, so how does the wet cement thing stack up against Ali's example of Juggernaut being "cast" into a steel block and then bursting out of it "moments later" (as quoted from the comic)?
Concrete is shithouse when loaded in tension, steel is great, and if Jugs can get out of steel in relatively short order, how in the name of all that's holy does concrete hold him?
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Go back to the shallow end, boy. Your brain isn't up to the task. The steel cocoon is of unknown quality, being rapid-melted by Iron Man's weapons and then flash-frozen through some mystical means. You are obviously assuming that it has the same properties as a cast ingot of structural steel, which is mindlessly stupid. At the very least, this process would produce a block which is full of voids, with massive impurities due to the uncontrolled environment. Not to mention the fact that the mystical instant flash-freezing process would make the entire microstructure martensitic at best, and possibly an even more unstable microstructure. structure. That means it will be brittle as hell. So no, it's really not that surprising that Juggernaut was able to smash his way out of it.
And guess what: you can't make one piece of evidence go away by citing another that you think contradicts it: you must explain them both, and you haven't even tried.
Hey, I couldn't care less if Jugs can get pussywhipped by Pee Wee Herman. What I'm really asking is, how do you deal with two canon pieces of evidence which completely contradict each other? Are you supposed to take the absolute minimum which you can find and assume that is it, and everything else beyond it is a fluke? Or do we take an average of what we see?
Actually, no, I'm not approximating it as a cast ingot of structural steel, I'm guessing that it's closer to white cast iron on the surface with the ludicrious forced cooling, and I'm guessing that it would be grey cast iron on the inside as that big block just can't cool uniformly that quickly. The block obviously melted all the way through as when Jugs broke through it you can see that it was one homogenous block.
Doing a quick check, using ESDU item 02016, Fracture toughness values of some cast irons, grey cast iron was what I'm guessing it to be, is stated to have a UTS of between 238~286MPa (Table 8.1.1). However, if you assume absolute worse case scenario, austenitic white cast iron, then you have a UTS of zero, just like concrete.
Am I being too generous in assuming that it's grey cast iron?
I know there is a method, but all I see is the madness.