the most modern steel

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seanystrangle

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sorry if i am posting this in the wrong place but for my anthropology class i need to do a essay with the evolution of stone tools to modern tools and i picked to do knives so what would be like a very modern steel and where can i find info on it?
thanks in advance
 
Any of the "super" steels would suffice S30V, VG10, SGPS, CowryX, INFI, B-42, etc., etc.

A quick on line search on any one of them should bring up copious amounts of info.

Kevin
 
Dag-nabit is right. Wikipedia should have most of the information (and its general correct)

Reccomended steels to look for would be steels such as s90v, s60v, s30v, 440v, 154cm, vg-10, h-1 (extremely "modern"), sandviks, 440a, 440c, d-2, o-1, 1095, etc., etc.
 
Don't forget ZDP-189! Probably the current "state of the art-newfangled" steel out there. Laminated ZDP and CPM-154 are probably the two newest/ shiniest steels at the moment.
 
Don't leave out ZDP 189, and Beta C which is a titanium alloy that is used for knives and a myriad of other types of applications. Beta C is modern and a very impressive material. Moreover check out Nitanol or Nitanol 60, WOW. There was also some special titanium alloy that was created by Lockhead Martin skunk works department for the SR-71 Blackbird project. This titanium alloy is capable of some serious stuff like being hardened above 50 RC while maintaining its toughness and not becoming brittle all the while being virtually RUST PROOF. Only a few batches were made and no more is being made due to very high production cost.

How about posting your paper here when your finished? Good luck.
 
MikeC said:
Don't leave out ZDP 189, and Beta C which is a titanium alloy that is used for knives and a myriad of other types of applications. Beta C is modern and a very impressive material. Moreover check out Nitanol or Nitanol 60, WOW. There was also some special titanium alloy that was created by Lockhead Martin skunk works department for the SR-71 Blackbird project. This titanium alloy is capable of some serious stuff like being hardened above 50 RC while maintaining its toughness and not becoming brittle all the while being virtually RUST PROOF. Only a few batches were made and no more is being made due to very high production cost.

How about posting your paper here when your finished? Good luck.
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lol ill post it as soon as im done. and i was told titanum cant be used for kinves and stuff because the carbon that is needed to make it harder would make it too difficult to work with? or is it because it is a alloy it would make that not true?
 
seanystrangle said:
lol ill post it as soon as im done. and i was told titanum cant be used for kinves and stuff because the carbon that is needed to make it harder would make it too difficult to work with? or is it because it is a alloy it would make that not true?
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The titanium I referenced are both special alloy versions of titanium I'm not talking about plain old 6Al4V. Check out Mission knives they have been making knives with stuff for decades and their knives have been used navy seals, marine recon and other special ops units for over ten years without one knife being broken in the field. They do require more sharpening because they're softer rc 47 but their tough as nails and absolutely positively will not RUST, unless you have some saltwater with chlorine at 500 degrees centigrade to put it in.
 
MikeC said:
The titanium I referenced are both special alloy versions of titanium I'm not talking about plain old 6Al4V. Check out Mission knives they have been making knives with stuff for decades and their knives have been used navy seals, marine recon and other special ops units for over ten years without one knife being broken in the field. They do require more sharpening because they're softer rc 47 but their tough as nails and absolutely positively will not RUST, unless you have some saltwater with chlorine at 500 degrees centigrade to put it in.
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Awesome thank you looks like i am including some titanum in my essay:)
thank you so much
 
tallonite, and the like are cobalt based alloys about 50% cobalt 20%-30% cromium and some other stuff.
you might also mention the manufacturing process powdered metallurgy is probably the most advanced process yet, you could also mention different coatings that like titanium nitride supper hard corosion resistant coatings that sound cool too:)

P.s .Don't Forget Wootz, the start of it all.
 
yes they can and usually are, a powdered steel is to condense, a steel manufactured by a process in which the molten steel is basically extruded with a high pressure (inert of course) gas this means that the steel sprays out in billions of little balls which cool almost instantaneously, preventing the alloys from separating (in a casting heavier element like tungsten will go to the bottom if given time). then the powder is heated and pressed (HIP) into a billet that is 100% dense no gaps.
the advantage is that it allows for new alloys with greater alloy content, and the grains in the steel are very fine resulting in increased toughness. Very neat process.

http://crucibleservice.com/eselector/general/generalpart3.html
also has modern high quality steels
 
Nebulae said:
yes they can and usually are, a powdered steel is to condense, a steel manufactured by a process in which the molten steel is basically extruded with a high pressure (inert of course) gas this means that the steel sprays out in billions of little balls which cool almost instantaneously, preventing the alloys from separating (in a casting heavier element like tungsten will go to the bottom if given time). then the powder is heated and pressed (HIP) into a billet that is 100% dense no gaps.
the advantage is that it allows for new alloys with greater alloy content, and the grains in the steel are very fine resulting in increased toughness. Very neat process.

http://crucibleservice.com/eselector/general/generalpart3.html
also has modern high quality steels
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thank you so much for explaing this to me. but to make sure i understand it it is so that new alloys can be made and existing ones the parts are packed more dense for a stronger overall package?
 
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