Metal foam obliterates bullets
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Metal foam obliterates bullets
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#2Sweet - when can I buy level IV plates made out of this stuff?
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#3Neat, though of course this raises the question: what would it take to engineer a foam-piercing bullet?
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#4Neat, though of course this raises the question: what would it take to engineer a foam-piercing bullet?
A bullet made out of metal foam?
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#5> Last year, with support from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, Rabiei showed that CMFs are very effective at shielding X-rays, gamma rays and neutron radiation.
Designers of spacecraft and lunar/Mars bases are likely pretty happy about this development.
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#6Are there any potential downsides to this stuff? It seems too good to be true.
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#7Would this be effective against micrometeoroids and orbital debris?
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#8What if you shoot twice at the same spot?
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#9> Last year, with support from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, Rabiei showed that CMFs are very effective at shielding X-rays, gamma rays and neutron radiation. Designers of spacecraft and lunar/Mars bases are likely pretty happy about this development.
Here's the doi for that paper: doi:10.1016/j.radphyschem.2015.07.003
Unfortunately I could only find the paywalled version here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969806X15...
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#10The part about shielding radiation sounds dubious to me. I thought shielding from radiation was mostly about mass. How is that foam supposed to shield better than cast metal of the same weight? Maybe the "foam" deteriorates less?