Is INFI more than the perfect blade steel?

Moloko Plus

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I have a few Busse blades and have never been disappointed with performance. Many of the people who post on this forum have either conducted or seen many Busse destruction tests that are testament to the power of INFI.

So I am curious... do any of you think INFI would make a good structural steel for buildings and bridges? It seems like it would make the perfect material for structures in earthquake-prone or high wind areas where the lateral strength of INFI would prevent or at least limit the damage (assuming the integrity of the structure's foundation of course).

I am not a structural engineer, materials scientist, or anything remotely close to either. I don't know what is in INFI or how it is made, so the idea of using INFI for industrial and architectural purposes (amongst others) may be terribly naive. But I am still curious to know, as I live in a city and would honestly feel safer knowing the buildings I work in and drive past are safe and sound with INFI structural support. Who wouldn't?

Anyone have any thoughts on this?
 
I am not really all that knowledgable about the subject either, but I think the main determinant would be that it would probably not be economical. Most of the high end knife steels probably have a variety of industrial uses that they could be used for, but they more than likely would not meet the economical needs that they would need to meet to be used for stuff like that. Basically the benefit of using a high end steel like that would not be high enough to balance out the cost for large industrial purposes in general. Of course there may be some specific industrial uses where the cost is worth the benefit but I highly doubt that it would do so for architectural purposes.
 
structural steel is made to be softer and very tough. It has no need to be hard so it would not make sense. However, most steels have their background in some industrial use. So a lot of these steels including infi are based on shock steels of somekind.
 
Love your forum name Droogy!:D
How about an INFI Cod Piece?:eek:

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Thanks for the replies. That's good to know... now I can stop wondering about it.

I have to go now... to sharpen up for a bit of the old ultraviolence.
 
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