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View Poll Results: What is your favorite material for making a robot frame?
metal (if you like a specific type list it)	44	89.80%
wood	0	0%
plastics (all types)	2	4.08%
carbon fiber composite	3	6.12%
other (please list)	0	0%
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22-09-2005, 00:15

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Re: Construction materials

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Originally Posted by BrianBSL

But isnt steel almost twice as heavy as titanium?

Yes. Titanium is about 1.66 times the weight of 6061 aluminum and mild steel is about 1.74 times the weight of titanium.

So, titanium isn't your "strength of steel with the weight of aluminum" that a lot of people make it out to be. With regards to weight (density really) it is between aluminum and steel.

Nominal Densities in lb/in^3

6061 Aluminum - .098
Titanium - .163
Mild Steel - .284

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