67 relations: Aerospace, Aluminium, Aluminium foam sandwich, Aluminum polymer composite, Anti-aircraft warfare, Anti-intrusion bar, Armor-piercing shell, Bicycle helmet, Biocompatibility, Blood vessel, Blowing agent, Bone, Catalysis, Catalytic converter, Ceramic foam, Computer cooling, Cordierite, Cryogenics, Cubic crystal system, Exhaust gas, Extrusion, Filtration, Foam, Foaming agent, Gamma ray, Heat exchanger, High-explosive incendiary, Improvised explosive device, Melting, Mercury (element), Metal, Nanofoam, Neutron, Osmium, Osseointegration, Palladium black, Palladium hydride, Phase-change material, Physical property, Plateau's laws, Platinum, Polymer, Polyurethane, Porosity, Porous medium, Powder metallurgy, Prosthesis, Radioactive waste, Raney nickel, Reticulated foam, ..., Rolling (metalworking), Selective laser melting, Siberian Husky, Soundproofing, Square–cube law, Stainless steel, Stiffness, Tantalum, Thermal conductivity, Thermal expansion, Titanium, Titanium foam, Titanium hydride, Ultimate tensile strength, Ultralight material, Ultraviolet, X-ray. Expand index (17 more) »
Aerospace
Aerospace is the human effort in science, engineering and business to fly in the atmosphere of Earth (aeronautics) and surrounding space (astronautics).
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Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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Aluminium foam sandwich
Aluminium foam sandwich (AFS) is a sandwich panel product which is made of two metallic dense face sheets and a metal foam core made of an aluminium alloy.
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Aluminum polymer composite
An aluminum polymer composite (APC) material combines aluminum with a polymer to create materials with interesting characteristics.
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Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare or counter-air defence is defined by NATO as "all measures designed to nullify or reduce the effectiveness of hostile air action."AAP-6 They include ground-and air-based weapon systems, associated sensor systems, command and control arrangements and passive measures (e.g. barrage balloons).
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Anti-intrusion bar
An anti-intrusion bar or beam is a passive safety device, installed in most cars and other ground vehicles, which must protect passengers from side impacts.
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Armor-piercing shell
An armor-piercing shell, AP for short, is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate armor.
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Bicycle helmet
A bicycle helmet is designed to attenuate impacts to the head of a cyclist in falls while minimizing side effects such as interference with peripheral vision.
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Biocompatibility
Biocompatibility is related to the behavior of biomaterials in various contexts.
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Blood vessel
The blood vessels are the part of the circulatory system, and microcirculation, that transports blood throughout the human body.
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Blowing agent
A blowing agent is a substance which is capable of producing a cellular structure via a foaming process in a variety of materials that undergo hardening or phase transition, such as polymers, plastics, and metals.
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Bone
A bone is a rigid organ that constitutes part of the vertebrate skeleton.
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Catalysis
Catalysis is the increase in the rate of a chemical reaction due to the participation of an additional substance called a catalysthttp://goldbook.iupac.org/C00876.html, which is not consumed in the catalyzed reaction and can continue to act repeatedly.
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Catalytic converter
A catalytic converter is an exhaust emission control device that converts toxic gases and pollutants in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine into less-toxic pollutants by catalyzing a redox reaction (an oxidation and a reduction reaction).
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Ceramic foam
Ceramic foam is a tough foam made from ceramics.
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Computer cooling
Computer cooling is required to remove the waste heat produced by computer components, to keep components within permissible operating temperature limits.
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Cordierite
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Cryogenics
In physics, cryogenics is the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures.
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Cubic crystal system
In crystallography, the cubic (or isometric) crystal system is a crystal system where the unit cell is in the shape of a cube.
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Exhaust gas
Exhaust gas or flue gas is emitted as a result of the combustion of fuels such as natural gas, gasoline, petrol, biodiesel blends, diesel fuel, fuel oil, or coal.
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Extrusion
Extrusion is a process used to create objects of a fixed cross-sectional profile.
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Filtration
Filtration is any of various mechanical, physical or biological operations that separate solids from fluids (liquids or gases) by adding a medium through which only the fluid can pass.
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Foam
Foam is a substance formed by trapping pockets of gas in a liquid or solid.
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Foaming agent
A foaming agent is a material that facilitates formation of foam such as a surfactant or a blowing agent.
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Gamma ray
A gamma ray or gamma radiation (symbol γ or \gamma), is penetrating electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei.
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Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is a device used to transfer heat between two or more fluids.
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High-explosive incendiary
In warfare, High-explosive incendiary (HEI) is a type of ammunition specially designed to impart energy and therefore damage to its target in one or both of two ways: via a high-explosive charge and/or via its incendiary (fire-causing) effects.
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Improvised explosive device
An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.
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Melting
Melting, or fusion, is a physical process that results in the phase transition of a substance from a solid to a liquid.
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element with symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Metal
A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.
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Nanofoam
Nanofoams are a class of nanostructured, porous materials (foams) containing a significant population of pores with diameters less than 100 nm.
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Neutron
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Osmium
Osmium (from Greek ὀσμή osme, "smell") is a chemical element with symbol Os and atomic number 76.
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Osseointegration
Osseointegration (from Latin ossum "bone" and integrare "to make whole") is the direct structural and functional connection between living bone and the surface of a load-bearing artificial implant ("load-bearing" as defined by Albrektsson et al. in 1981).
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Palladium black
Palladium black is a coarse, sponge-like form of elemental palladium which offers a large surface area for catalytic activity.
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Palladium hydride
Palladium hydride is metallic palladium that contains a substantial quantity of hydrogen within its crystal lattice.
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Phase-change material
A phase change material (PCM) is a substance with a high heat of fusion which, melting and solidifying at a certain temperature, is capable of storing and releasing large amounts of energy.
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Physical property
A physical property is any property that is measurable, whose value describes a state of a physical system.
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Plateau's laws
Plateau's laws describe the structure of soap films.
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Platinum
Platinum is a chemical element with symbol Pt and atomic number 78.
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Polymer
A polymer (Greek poly-, "many" + -mer, "part") is a large molecule, or macromolecule, composed of many repeated subunits.
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Polyurethane
Polyurethane (PUR and PU) is a polymer composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.
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Porosity
Porosity or void fraction is a measure of the void (i.e. "empty") spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0% and 100%.
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Porous medium
A porous medium or a porous material is a material containing pores (voids).
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Powder metallurgy
Powder metallurgy (PM) is a term covering a wide range of ways in which materials or components are made from metal powders.
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Prosthesis
In medicine, a prosthesis (plural: prostheses; from Ancient Greek prosthesis, "addition, application, attachment") is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trauma, disease, or congenital conditions.
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Radioactive waste
Radioactive waste is waste that contains radioactive material.
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Raney nickel
Raney nickel, also called spongy nickel, is a fine-grained solid composed mostly of nickel derived from a nickel-aluminium alloy.
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Reticulated foam
Reticulated foam is a very porous, low density solid foam.
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Rolling (metalworking)
In metalworking, rolling is a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through one or more pairs of rolls to reduce the thickness and to make the thickness uniform.
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Selective laser melting
Selective laser melting (SLM) or direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) is a particularly rapid prototyping, 3D printing, or additive manufacturing (AM) technique designed to use a high power-density laser to melt and fuse metallic powders together.
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Siberian Husky
The Siberian Husky (Сибирский хаски) is a Large size working dog breed that originated in Northeast Asia.
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Soundproofing
Soundproofing is any means of reducing the sound pressure with respect to a specified sound source and receptor.
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Square–cube law
The square–cube law (or cube–square law) is a mathematical principle, applied in a variety of scientific fields, which describes the relationship between the volume and the surface area as a shape's size increases or decreases.
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Stainless steel
In metallurgy, stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox from French inoxydable (inoxidizable), is a steel alloy with a minimum of 10.5% chromium content by mass.
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Stiffness
Stiffness is the rigidity of an object — the extent to which it resists deformation in response to an applied force.
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Tantalum
Tantalum is a chemical element with symbol Ta and atomic number 73.
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Thermal conductivity
Thermal conductivity (often denoted k, λ, or κ) is the property of a material to conduct heat.
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Thermal expansion
Thermal expansion is the tendency of matter to change in shape, area, and volume in response to a change in temperature.
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Titanium
Titanium is a chemical element with symbol Ti and atomic number 22.
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Titanium foam
Titanium foams exhibit high specific strength, high energy absorption, excellent corrosion resistance and biocompatibility.
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Titanium hydride
Titanium hydride normally refers to the inorganic compound TiH2 and related nonstoichiometric materials.
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Ultimate tensile strength
Ultimate tensile strength (UTS), often shortened to tensile strength (TS), ultimate strength, or Ftu within equations, is the capacity of a material or structure to withstand loads tending to elongate, as opposed to compressive strength, which withstands loads tending to reduce size.
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Ultralight material
Ultralight materials are solids with a density of less than 10 mg/cm3, including silica aerogels, carbon nanotube aerogels, aerographite, metallic foams, polymeric foams, and metallic microlattices.
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays.
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X-ray
X-rays make up X-radiation, a form of electromagnetic radiation.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_foam