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Post by captinjoehenry on Oct 19, 2016 19:28:25 GMT
Ok so I was reading about high performance material that are in use these days and it struck me that it seems we do not have any of the currently in use superalloys available to us. I might just be missing them but as they are used in quite a lot of high temperature environments and they are designed to keep their strength even close to their melting point which suggest they could be very useful for turbo pumps or reaction wheels or even armor. But they'll probably be very expensive.
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Post by n2maniac on Oct 20, 2016 7:06:10 GMT
All of the in-game materials "keep their strength near their melting point", in that their material properties do not degrade. IRL, maximum service temperature is rarely set by melting point, but often by when material properties (eg. strength, creep resistance) sufficiently degrade to be useless. Superalloys (eg. inconel) resist this much further, but this does not show up by melting point and room temperature strength alone.
Given the programming headache that would be present to simulate properties versus temperature, we may be left with this as is.
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