Hull Stress/Space Life

[Mark]

I wouldn't want to trust my life to something with a name like that

[Tsukiyumi]

What, "trans-uranic"

We use depleted uranium for armor now, some alloy based on that (or osmium or iridium) would make seriously powerful armor, albeit amazingly dense.

[Mark]

Call me old fashioned, but any materiel that sounds like the by product of a bodily function by definition to me is questionable. 8)

[Bryan Moore]

As for not answering my question: Why such short spaceframe life?

[Mikey]

As for not answering my question: Why such short spaceframe life?

No matter what the RBM of a particular material, it would suffer damaging stress. The necessity of inertial dampers is an indication.

And RBM would really be the test in this case. Yield strength doesn't resist stress, and modulus is a factor of construction rather than of the material itself. I don't know it's that short in all situations, either - how long have D-7/K'T'Ingas been around? Or Mirandas?

[stitch626]

Of course, recently ships seem to never live out their hull life; they get blown up.

[Mark]

Space is a dangerous place 8)

[Sionnach Glic]

Even more dangerous when you get retarded monkeys to design the safety systems.

[Captain Seafort]

We use depleted uranium for armor now, some alloy based on that (or osmium or iridium) would make seriously powerful armor, albeit amazingly dense.

My guess would be DU - that's probably what "duranium" is.

[Mikey]

Hmm. I always figured it was some pseudo-pithy play on the root of the word "durable."

[Captain Seafort]

That may have been how it came about. Or someone was adding random letters to the front of existing elements. Nonetheless, the word does makes sense IU as a contraction of "depleted uranium".

[Mikey]

I like it. Clever.

[Bryan Moore]

I like it. Clever.

Perhaps, but I like the "durable" idea. I assumed thats what it was going for.

[Tsukiyumi]

That may have been how it came about. Or someone was adding random letters to the front of existing elements. Nonetheless, the word does makes sense IU as a contraction of "depleted uranium".

I'm with Mikey. Quite plausible. I wonder what it would be alloyed with? Osmiridium? Exceedingly dense, but certainly possible.

[Teaos]

I believe they use Vanadium in rockets ect nowadays, but thats thinking back to my 6th form chemistry class...