Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing
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#2How is this advantageous over gluing?
Re: Welding breakthrough could transform manufacturing
#3How is this advantageous over gluing?
From the article:
> At the moment, equipment and products that involve glass and metal are often held together by adhesives, which are messy to apply and parts can gradually creep, or move. Outgassing is also an issue - organic chemicals from the adhesive can be gradually released and can lead to reduced product lifetime.
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#4How is this advantageous over gluing?
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#5How is this advantageous over gluing?
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#6How is this advantageous over gluing?
adhesives break down, outgas, and leach degradation components into their environments when heated above their safe operating range.
presumably this is going to be very handy for high temperature applications.
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#7So how long till transparent aluminium?
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#8Sounds really interesting. The only potential downside I see is that metal and glass generally expand differently under heat and have different tensile strengths etc. I wonder how they plan to deal with that.
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#9Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19309121
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#10Interesting. I wonder if an architect/civil engineer could explain what the implications would be of the application of this technology in the field of construction?