An international team of researchers claim to have created the first synthetic cut-proof material that actively destroys the tool trying to cut through it.
Even the toughest lock can do little more than delay a person properly equipped to cut through them, but engineers at Durham University in England and the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have come up with a new material that they say is extremely hard to cut through. Called Proteus, the revolutionary synthetic material is inspired not by diamonds and sapphires, the toughest natural materials known to man, but by the cellular skin of the grapefruit and the fracture resistant shells of the abalone mollusk.
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Ok, so how are you supposed to shape the stuff? Cast it into the shape you want and hope you get it right?
ReplyDeleteIn the video you will notice they use a dry wheel aluminum is typically machined with a cutting fluid wax or oil I sugest the lab folks did not exercise all options. I like the .308 idea.
ReplyDeleteI think holding up to a projectile was probably the goal. There is a lot of activity in metal-ceramic composite structure development specifically for armor use. Serious govt and private funding. Mostly directed toward spreading a force across a wide area. This stuff appears to be exactly what's wanted: lightweight, probably made by a casting process, diffuses cutting/impact.
ReplyDeleteI got some new penetrater broadheads coming on bone shatter bolts for a crossbow that sends them down range at over 375 fps. Want to put that on and see how it works out for ya.
ReplyDeleteLook how deep the grinder wheel is sunk. The wheel grinder looks to be sunk in deep enough to cut a bike lock, the material seems useful for stopping a long cut through a plate but a shank on a lock is only 1/2" down to a 1/4". If the saw blade stopped after a 2"cut a bullet proof vest would have to be 2" thick or deeper, no? What am I missing? They didn't show a ballistic test.
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