Seeking ways to make military vehicles less vulnerable to blast damage, BAE Systems is looking to one of the toughest insects in nature – the frighteningly hard to kill ironclad beetle. The defense ...

One of the Government’s most costly and coddled cold-war babies was its crash program to mass-produce titanium, the “wonder metal” that is lighter than steel and tougher than aluminum. To get the ...

As strong as steel and half the weight titanium is a metal which has never achieved its potential because it is at least 10-times the price. But that might be about to change with the dawning of the ...

Tokyo, Japan – Titanium is the ninth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, yet products based on pure titanium are uncommon because it’s expensive to remove the oxygen from titanium ore.

A direct comparison of the physical, electrical, and thermal properties of pure titanium with those of other metals such as aluminum, nickel, magnesium, copper, and 304 stainless steel is illustrated ...