Engineering The Strongest Foam in the World
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- Опубликовано: 12 мар 2015
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As we race into the future of space travel, electric cars, and high impact sports, some of our biggest challenges are not actually how we design our future modes of transportation but what we actually build them with. It’s a brave new world, and with a new world, we need new materials. Unlike its soft padded equivalent, syntactic foam may be the material key to protecting ourselves in the future.
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Fine! I'll FUCKING WATCH THIS. Stop suggesting it!
Ron Jeremy ikr
Click on the 3 dots and select not interested, then it will stop suggesting similar videos
same here wtf.
cmon guys, it looks just like vice and that guy is totally casual and in our age group probly.. im way into foam now. being a kickass young person is awesome right other youthful consumers?
Don't lie to me Xplosio Lee, I've been clicking not interested on this shit every day for nearly a month now.
I am so thankful people like this exist. Not only is he trying to better the human kind through science and engineering but he has a passion for it, he does it because he is motivated to do it. It's fantastic.
lmfao the look on his face at 1:32
+Serenity rofl,yeah,that look screamed "Hey girls,imma science the SHIT out of dis foam"
hahaha savage ;)
Serenity he looks like mr bean
I took hollow glass bead and polystyrene balls and mixed it in with epoxy resin.
First I mixed in the hollow glass bead until the epoxy was saturated and the hollow glass bead would no longer go into the mix.
Then I poured off the excess hollow glass bead and then added (about 50% of the volume) the polystyrene bean bag balls.
Once it set up it was so hard you could hit it with a hammer, and it didn't break as the epoxy has a compressive stress of about 100 MPa - steel is 280 MPa - and it floated on water, so you can make this stuff at home pretty easily and its very strong indeed.
tell me more about that idont get why you put excess hollow beads pour them of and put polystyrene?
I hate that these are so short... you just seem to tease us and get us really interested in a topic to just end it right there :(
It's okay, we probably won't see this technology for decades anyway. I remembered new technology on the show "Beyond 2000" which was a decade ago. I have yet to see those "new" technology today on the market.
gconol just looking at one episode of that series i can already see a few technologies which are already everywhere around you. Have you been living under a rock for the past 15 years, perhaps?
ololh4xx Been living under your mom.
Waaat ? You can't get that with satellite !
gconol yeah that doesnt make any sense. Do your homework now, please
ololh4xx you know what doesn't make sense? You replying to a comment that you know didn't make sense in the first place..... Fail
Sir Face of the Moon - new super hero name, I called it.
This is more important then whatever the hell it is the Kardashians are doing
90% of the population might disagree with you. Did you know that Kim spends over 1000$ a day for make-up ??
gconol haha, what a dumb bitch.
details of my bowel movement this morning are more important than what the kardashians are doing
Josh undigested carrots??
gconol spinach, actually.
Not very informative of the actual material
yeah this video is so dumb
Yea super uninformative
could be the choice of the facility to not show an experimental material due to it not being available for public use?
Idk if you didn't get it or what...but,
he said Syntactic foam, look it up..
The video is how they engineer foam stronger than what we have now ..
***** I think it was informative on a technical level. Not necessarily a click bait video. It's in development, so it's not exactly a marketing video.
The guys that take care of music in these videos is really good!!
This thumb up is for you :)
that navy ship looked AWESOME! Super impressive.
Is this what the Swiss are up to with their cheeses? Making them faster, better, stronger? I always thought they were just trying to stiff me out of some cheese.
such a humble man
What I've learned throughout my engineering undergraduate studies is that what we learn in lectures does not completely explain what happens in the labs through experiments and what happens in labs does not truly define what happens in real life.
0:36 don't be that guy in the white truck -_-
good luck, we all need that to become half of batman
The other half is dead parents.
preferably by super foam
Nate C lol
XerosXIII you want to become a part of batman?
XerosXIII I'm full batman
Great video... I just had a nerdgasm
Terrible video. 5+ minutes to receive about 8 seconds worth of information.
U need to find a job and stop looting stores gangster..
Or should I say thug ..
eddie williams really dude..?
I need a new motherboard... is this a good one? O.o
Thanks for the insights in this video. It's always nice to see where research hopes to take us.
just a few things missing like - How strong is it ? How light is it ? How is it made ? How does this compare to existing materials ?
It’s strong enough to go to the deepest part of the ocean. James Cameron’s deepsea challenger
I think this is the first video title I read and went “I have no idea or even guess as to what the hell this is about… I have to watch this now… the programming course can wait”.
Not only materials that we get from space will be important, but materials that we ourselves can manufacture in microgravity will revolutionize materials science.
It would have been nice to show more about the foam...
People always make fun of Indians because of their accent. However, you can find a couple of those guys in any science firms and laboratories across the States. We may be using stuffs that they've created without knowing. Impressive!
Don't worry, if you were to go live in India and speak Hindi, they'd find your accent equally comical.
I wish he had gone into the actual manufacture of a foam so we could see how it was assembled. The little spheres give little idea, but what do they do with them?
0:28
lightweight potatoes would be a great invention too
I look forward to the future, and am grateful to be alive to see Moore's Law unfold at this point in technological history as we accelerate ever faster toward some sort of singularity.
This field of science will change dramaticly i would expect when true A.I. arrives.
Hey, what a neat little feature! It's short enough to attract viewers like me who have a short attention span, but informative enough to inspire further investigation. Also, I like the sound of English being spoken with an Indian accent: kudos for interviewing Sri Nikhil Gupta Ji.
Seems to me this stuff is engineered volcanic rock - light, porous, & structurally extremely rigid.
as a mechanical engineering student this gives me a really good insight into the field
so what do you do for a job?.... I fill stuff with bubbles :D
holownsu youre a useless piece of pathetic shit
neo69121 i suppose you about sum up the internet eh?... i write some nice little comment about bubbles and you throw all your hatred and anger at me.......
holownsu Nah, I think he has seen all the retarded comments on this video and is having a breakdown lol
Edward Yeboah seems so 0_o
***** commenting about cute little bubbles is full of hate? lel
Great video, I don't know why people are complaining that it isn't informative.
Because they only pay attention to the 'Strongest Foam in the World' part of the title and missed out on the 'Engineering' part.
This is just repeating our study on composite metal foams in a different name!!!
Yes I was just going to ask about that! :)
They should hook this guy up with the engineer working on the geodesic spheres for fish farming. Ultra light, buoyant, strong materials would be perfect for that.
As Neill remarked earlier, surprisingly little information about what kind of materials we are talking about. Now we know how this associate professor works, but hardly what he is working on. It's not a trade secret, some physics and chemistry would've been nice.
Wish old Gupta a good one! Cool work ya are adding to there my friend. Thanks Gupta and all you scientists out there adding to the wealth of amazing thangs! Main!
ok we just need you to stand there and pose for every shot.
Fascinating technology. Simple yet clever.
listen to this man talking somehow I feel like I have wiruses on my computer... :\
Marcus Aseth I think you mean a wirrrus
I think he means each and everything (but mostly everything)
Marcus Aseth lewis teckkk
Hedo. I am mary from microsoft, your pc seems to have a wirus.
"Have I answered your questions satisfactorily and offered GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE?!"
I really enjoy the presenter, he has the right amount of enthusiasm and excitement to make anyone interested in the topics he presents.
0:18 This guy is hella dope with that one-strap
New and incredible syntactic foam man, with syntactic foaming powers.
Lighters than conventional building block materials on cars, planes and ships.
Stronger than your average foam, than your average sponge even stronger than bubble wrap.
Syntactic foam man, the lightest, fuel efficient, shock absorbing man in the world.
we just got a sample of syntactic foam to begin testing for deep sea salvage.
How does one check stress fracture formation that form inside the syntactic foam? Is it even possible to check it...is it worth using in cycle stress machinery if you cannot check for fracture formations?
What?! Zumwalt is a composite ship?? WOW
I wish this went more in depth. Any material properties? Is this used alone, or in composites? Do they expect this material to be manufactured in an affordable way?
I wish he had talked a little more about the applications. It will definitely be interesting to see what kinds of uses people find for these interesting materials once they become more widely available for commercial use.
Why is there absolutely no information on how it is made? He says that you cannot just have a porous material, or it will be weak. You need a material with "tiny hollow particles", but what are these particles? Are they removed from the examples that he shows in the video? because they definitely look porous. I feel like very little information was given in this video, even the basic stuff. Maybe this stuff is under patent, and he cant give out information, or maybe the reporter just didn't ask very good questions, but either way it feels like a waste of a video
The particles are just hollow metal spheres of uniform size. You can get a bunch of them fairly easily on AliExpress. Then you just inject/sinter a molten metal like aluminum/titanium into the matrix. If you've ever seen the Taofledermaus channel, it's kinda like what he does with wax slugs, except the lead shot are replaced with tiny hollow balls. You can even make composite syntactic foams out of hollow glass spheres. 3M manufacturers these in various sizes to make lightweight, yet strong, polymer materials.
+Mike Trieu (MegasChara) ahh thank you so much
He said its funded by the military so its probably secret
I think the difference between "porous" and "tiny hollow particles" is basically the difference between an open and a closed cell foam.
Mike Trieu suprisingly this material sounds a whole lot like the composite used by russia where they use a porcelin sphere matrix last i heard.
When u put a link at bottom on the screen, that is this small, it is impossible to press caused by the standard youtube menu.
I foresee prosthetic wings for human flight without craft. WOOOO the future is looking mighty cool.
iinRez nah!! 'm too lazy to even flap my wings, it better be battery operated.
I've been doing this in my garage for years very cool
Material science may be boring, even to me, but in a lot of human history, every single advancements was limited to the materials we are limited to. Even in sorta recent history, like when Tesla did some bladeless turbine. That shit couldnt work because the materials of that time just cant handle it
anyone see that 1995 dell pc...top of the line i wonder where the 56k modem is ...
Donald Keyes yeah lol with all the high tech stuff and they have an old pc with Windows XP lol
Many high frequency data acquisition cards use the older PCI bus and do not have updated drivers. I have even seen ISA cards still in use in some applications. These are not consumer products that get updated marketing every year. If you can find a better way to sample 8 - 128 channels of data between 20 and 150 million samples per second with sub-micosecond jitter and inter channel coherence, you should start looking for venture capital today.
That strongest foam needs a corresponding strongest bed
Whats that thing at 3:47 ?? Looks like some sort of soundsource
Smart guy!! Found What he loves and learned until he was on the cutting edge! Very awe inspiring, a guy from New Delli some where making it to a Professorship on USA!
Very amusing and promising material.
gupta really?
anyway.. what the name of the song at the end?
Why can't my college have a professor like this, instead of some shmuck who just took physics class 20 years ago... we have no real lab, no materials... just read out of the fucking book.... I feel at a huge disadvantage to people who go to these schools. I'm taking ME btw at Baker. It's all I can afford.
After you finish college you have a chance to work with people like this. Only if you believe its possible. Keep moving forward live yore dream.
Maybe you should be an MET instead? Mechanical engineering technology is basically applied ME. ME is more theoretical. Ideally, you should probably double major as an ME and MET, or do what alot of people do, which is to double major in ME and EE.
aslan burnley Actually I should've clarified I am taking the MET program, I figured I can always go back if I decide I want the full 4 year. I wanted to start working soon as possible in my field. And I have, I have a kickass job in production engineering. It's only up from here :)
Shit schools wont help you much. You can look in a book all day but no company is gonna hire you unless you have lab work, or some kind of hands on work that you can show them. Knowing everything is one thing, but knowing how to use that knowledge is something else completely.
If someone asked me if they should go to college, I would say; only if you can afford a really good one. Because unless you are at a really good college, you can learn all of that stuff on your own and you wont be in huge debt for it. Instead, if you cant afford school, focus on finding internships and jobs, where you can learn how to apply knowledge, not just the knowledge itself. That will make you more money, faster, and keep you out of debt. I know self taught programmers who make as much as programmers who have their master's degree. Its not really about the degree, its more about the experience and your knowledge. College is just a very formal way of getting 4 years of good experience. 4 years at a very good company would teach you just as much or more.
MET stands for Mechanical Engineering Technician, but you are right, it's more hands on. Nobody should really do regular mechanical or electrical engineering unless they want to be teachers.
Pretty kewl. I can see applications for motorcycle riders too.
That's cute. The new USS Zumwalt destroyer is a foam boat. I heard of this weird engineered steel foam I just didn't know it was actually used in a practical application.
where can i get some of this syntactic foam? would love to build a recumbent bike out of it.
Decent video, but the strength of the foam and even more so the use of this foam due to it's strength versus the use of other specific materials would have been nice to include so we, the viewers would have a better idea of what we're looking at. Yes, I realize we can go look up the information for ourselves, but this gives us little more than the name and microscopic view of the material. Again, not bad, but too short... much too short.
There is a lot of confusion in these comments. This materials scientist works in an academic research lab with students, specializing in "Syntactic Foam." He is speaking about this type of composite foam as a class of materials, not on one specific composition or product.
Funny they don't look into the oceans before "space" If there is anything that can withstand compression; Its probably at the bottom of the ocean... lol
*Thank you, come again!*
Really like this guy!
Nothing happening there. All we saw was the materials testing laboratory (crush it, bend it, submit it to gradual pressure, impulse pressure, test for water absorption, heat retention or rate of loss (only need an oven for that), optical characteristics (reflection of light - only need a light meter for that), twisting, UV degredation resistance (have any of the above material qualities changed with short or long term exposure to sunlight) etc... that was it. And he mostly theorised about what is possible - THAT WAS IT!!!! Nuthin.
1:30 ooohh yeaaah
How about a wicking material foam for adsorbtion refrigeration ? Like a really good nano sponge for water or alcohol ?
Interesting video. I always like to see people using an SEM, and material science interests me.
thank you, come again
So they say engineering people are boring? Now look at this.. syntactic foam! How cool is that...
The world's strongest foam reminds me of the world's fastest midget.
so wait dose it have those holes inside the metal like real foam or is it just holes drilled on the surface cuz that would just be dumb.
amazing!!!
For those making a fuss about the lack of an in depth explanation, just use Google Scholar to follow up. There are lots of interesting papers available that have been published by Nikhil Gupta.
gotta love the c clamps all over the bar machine like it was half built and they just said well we dont use those clamps anyway and there as good as bolts! lol
Nikhil Gupta? Now that's a surname with a legacy!
A practical application for strong foams would be in the military. Where a bit of foam inside the driving compartment can be very useful for preventing injuries in accidents.
I was only ever in one somewhat serious accident while driving a stryker, and between the foam padding and my helmet despite taking the entire impact of the crash to my head I was pretty well fine after the crash. Bit dazed and confused but still able to drive,
In cars I can see it being more difficult to really protect the driver and passengers with foam because of how they are set up, but even just adding an inch of foam or so the ceiling could definitely reduce deaths from roll overs.
Very cool
this guy is a genies to create some cool shit like this
why? does he grant wishes?
You didn't actually explain about the material itself in depth rather how it applies to cars and moving vehicles and how would it benefit society. Maybe, next time, talk about what you promised us to show, then talk about the applications
So in my university. 1000 of us are Mechanical Engineering, 2 of them are material science.
Of course he's an East Indian guy because Americans are too busy making bigger and better burgers ...
***** You do realize "America" is one of the most diverse countries there is right? Even if it isnt many people consider the USA to be a fast track to a better life if they move there.He also pretty clearly has white kids that are research students working under him.
***** you realize he's in an American University, right?
Stickmanvan2 ... see what I mean ... no shit Sherlock ... HE is NOT American; the University IS but HE ISN'T.
blue123456ization "American Politicians". Like we have control over anything our shit government ever does.
And that guy is not "East Indian",he is just an "Indian"
Somebody have information about ,where I can to get it the hollow steal spheres?
whoa wasn't expecting to see my school lol
I always wondered what that lab was for...
that doctor is lit AF
Capitalizing Every Word in a Sentence
1:30 Well that's not awkward at all....
Had to turn on captions lol
Where is the foam?
Joshua Wangadi in his anus :^)
1:17 You know he's a nerd when he compares something to the moon
non-newtonian liquid memory polymer foam, i dont know if it already exists or not but it would be class if it did
Another potential use is in the construction of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) such as thermonuclear weapons. Funding is often derived from war related institutions. In many cases the students, involved in such projects, have little understanding of the source of funding and the eventual use of the technologies they are working on. There is not only the military-industrial complex but many academic institutions are also deeply involved in feeding from the trough of various war related government agencies.
"Occult Integer", that's the meaning of his name..
Very cool stuff they are doing.
I was wondering.. Meteorites also have metals smelted in zero gravity are also formed like a sponge..
So what's the name of this strongest foam in the world? What is it called? What are its properties?
idunno man, is a "metal foam" is so strong, it means that my super shitty phorous welds are super strong
are you italian?
yes, but live in canada
there is a difference in materials?
Idunno men, but i read your comment with indian acent
ha ha right man
Did this guy have clearance to talk about this foam? You guys realize that is a big part of the Stealth ability in dampening SONAR for submarines..
Brian the Red Are you allowed to tell us this? *calls police*
I Wonder How This Foam Metal Will With Stand Larger Caliber Shells From Other War Ships?
And How This Material Will React To Weapons Of Thermal Design, Like Laser Weapons.
Laser Weapon Like The Ones, The U.S. Military Are Currently Using?