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Re: Construction materials
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Originally Posted by Bill_Hancoc
If you want favorite material to work with as far as budget goes aluminum by far but if money was no object i would be using a titanium or carbon fibre. both of which have their disadvantages (titanium-dulls drill bits and other cutting tools fast)(carbon fibre-expensive and must be custom made for the most part)
So aluminum is easy to work with light and fairly strong.
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Titanium is not all it's cracked up to be, at least from a FIRST aspect. Its extremely strong, but so is steel. Titanium is is like 30% as heavy as aluminum. I can have the bragging aspect of making a bullet resistant robot, but if someone is coming into a competition and shooting my robot, I have more important things to worry about!
Check this PDF out: http://www.engr.ku.edu/~rhale/ae510/titanium.pdf
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Last edited by Andrew Blair : 09-22-2005 at 07:14 AM.
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