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what is stronger?
steel
80%
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alluminum
20%
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Big AL
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what is stronger?

i'v been wondering what is stronger steel or alluminum?
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Post Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:30 pm 
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Go here Big Al: http://homepages.which.net/~paul.hills/Materials/Materials.html

That will give you all the information under the sun. Generally steel is stronger then aluminium, but Aluminium can be heat treated and with different grade, will out perform mild steel. But in the end, tempered steel like Hardox kicks Aluminium in the teeth, but weight's nearly 4 times as much!
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Post Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:19 am 
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Generally speaking, steel.

Post Sun Oct 31, 2004 3:16 am 
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stronger per what?
weight?
size?
abrasion resistance?
hardness?
energy absorbtion?
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quote:
Originally posted by teamvertex:
tempered steel like Hardox kicks Aluminium in the teeth, but weight's nearly 4 times as much!


Technically Hardox doesn't get all its properties from the heat treatment. Its more to do with the chemical compisition of the alloying elements. The different grades of Hardox are made by different heat treatment processes, mainly the length of time they were tempered.
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how does this hardox compare with bisalloy?
our disks are made of 8mm bis -80
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