Whither Impact Resistance?

Ariphaos · Post by **Ariphaos** » 2005-11-11 02:01am

Does anyone have any good resources for the impact resistance of various materials? Particularly steel, kevlar, diamonds, nanotubes, etc?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-11-11 02:10am

Get a fracture-mechanics textbook. They all have reference tables in the back.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-11-11 06:43am

There was a site a year or two ago posted here that went into good detail of basic material properties from tensile strength to thermal capcitance. I'll see if I've got it bookmarked.

Ariphaos · Post by **Ariphaos** » 2005-11-13 12:15am

Thermal capacitance, yield strength, tensile strength, all these properties are widely explained, demonstrated, and rated on the great Internet.

I research impact resistance all I seem to find is people selling glass :-(

There was a metallics database I found online, but I seem to have misplaced it :-/

Ahh well, will have to trip to a library sometime.