Good work. Ti is a super material, but there are some issues with it. For one, it is difficult & expensive to make. That's not because the ore is rare (it isn't) that's because refining the ore down to pure metal uses a large amount of electricity. This is also true of Aluminium but Titanium is worse. Second, Ti is tough and light and strong and great, but it is vulnerable to cracking, and fixing that is a lot harder than fixing it in steel. BSA were a British motorcycle manufacturer, very successful in the 1940s and early '50s. So they built a bike to go racing off-road, what we would call MotorCross. And word came down from the Board of Directors to make the frame of the next version, from Titanium. Sounds good, on the surface, but that turned out to be a death sentence. the 'Ti' BSA was a dog that cracked and broke and bounced and handled terribly, because they simply tried to reproduce their Chrome Molly frame in Ti ~ and that's not how you do this. The Ti Beeza stands as a lesson for all of industry ~ don't let Members of the Board of Directors make engineering decisions. They weren't hired because of their engineering skills ~ they're on there because they own lots of shares. They're rich. In theory, they know about money and banking and business, but that doesn't mean they know enough to tie an engineer's bootlace. Intel ~ are you listening to me?
Casting following melting is not a separate step. In a VAR furnace an electric arc is formed between the compacted sponge electrode and the molten pool of titanium. This takes place in a water cooled copper crucible. As heat is extracted the lower part of the molten pool freezes to solid metal. As the length of the solid ingot rises in the crucible, so too must the electrode in order to keep a constant arc length between molten pool and tip of the electrode. Ingots can be 36” diameter or larger and 12 feet long.
Nowadays, you can’t get a video with some kind of environmental impact statement. Well that’s just life. It’s an environmental impact just to make an ice cube think about it.
No worries Ukrainians developed Green titanium and being patented before the war with Russia, Ukrainians are able to make titanium metal cheaply and after the war Ukraine will be producing 60000 tonnes enough for military purposes there's a TH-cam documentary called Green titanium watch it .
Good work.
Ti is a super material, but there are some issues with it. For one, it is difficult & expensive to make. That's not because the ore is rare (it isn't) that's because refining the ore down to pure metal uses a large amount of electricity. This is also true of Aluminium but Titanium is worse.
Second, Ti is tough and light and strong and great, but it is vulnerable to cracking, and fixing that is a lot harder than fixing it in steel.
BSA were a British motorcycle manufacturer, very successful in the 1940s and early '50s. So they built a bike to go racing off-road, what we would call MotorCross. And word came down from the Board of Directors to make the frame of the next version, from Titanium.
Sounds good, on the surface, but that turned out to be a death sentence. the 'Ti' BSA was a dog that cracked and broke and bounced and handled terribly, because they simply tried to reproduce their Chrome Molly frame in Ti ~ and that's not how you do this.
The Ti Beeza stands as a lesson for all of industry ~ don't let Members of the Board of Directors make engineering decisions. They weren't hired because of their engineering skills ~ they're on there because they own lots of shares. They're rich. In theory, they know about money and banking and business, but that doesn't mean they know enough to tie an engineer's bootlace.
Intel ~ are you listening to me?
Good video
Casting following melting is not a separate step. In a VAR furnace an electric arc is formed between the compacted sponge electrode and the molten pool of titanium. This takes place in a water cooled copper crucible. As heat is extracted the lower part of the molten pool freezes to solid metal. As the length of the solid ingot rises in the crucible, so too must the electrode in order to keep a constant arc length between molten pool and tip of the electrode. Ingots can be 36” diameter or larger and 12 feet long.
Good post. Thanks!
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Nowadays, you can’t get a video with some kind of environmental impact statement. Well that’s just life. It’s an environmental impact just to make an ice cube think about it.
Looks like the process is expensive when compared to caste iron
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No worries Ukrainians developed Green titanium and being patented before the war with Russia, Ukrainians are able to make titanium metal cheaply and after the war Ukraine will be producing 60000 tonnes enough for military purposes there's a TH-cam documentary called Green titanium watch it .