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Is there any special coating or paint that will strongly bond to an automobile tire's tread and can be driven on?
To add a bit to DKNguyen's answer:
The wear resistance of rubber as used in tire manufacture scales with its hardness. Hardness is varied by controlling the amount of carbon black milled into the ...
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Is there any special coating or paint that will strongly bond to an automobile tire's tread and can be driven on?
It is stated here that you get about 1mm of tire wear every 3600 miles.
https://www.blackcircles.com/helpcentre/tyres/how-many-miles-per-1mm-of-tread-depth
You're unlikely to find any coating more ...
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Why did the Soviet Alfa-class submarines have a titanium hull?
All Soviet industries were state owned, including titanium production.
So Soviet made titanium submarines to showcase their technological might.
THough titanium is strong, corrosion resistant and ...
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Why are car bodies not made of titanium?
Price average Titanium alloys costs 70-80 dollars a pound.
Steel cost 0.03 dollars a pound.
A unibody car chassis suddenly becomes 2000x more expensive for the raw material alone.
Workability, ...
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Why do some tensile test samples fail before the expected final elongation
Your TA is likely correct. Elongation can be greatly affected by surface finish in some materials. It's not about the loss of cross-sectional area, it's about stress concentrations and nucleation ...
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Electricity generation from sand particles in airstream hitting surface
This seems to be your question:
What if we use concentrated sunlight to heat air (e.g. to 300° C) and blow that air at high speeds to fire fine sand on some surface and continuously do so to generate ...
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Electricity generation from sand particles in airstream hitting surface
The energy required to pick up and blow the filings at the surface will exceed the truly tiny amount of charge separation that this device will generate, so it is a net losing proposition.
This is not ...
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What is this filter from an aluminium extrusion facility filtering?
Probably just particulate like others have mentioned; no idea the composition though. Something to consider is that good strainers are often "wedge wire" to reduce particulate getting stuck ...
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