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Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)
ABS (Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene) is tough, resilient, and easily molded. It is usually opaque, although some grades can now be transparent, and it can be given vivid colors. ABS-PVC alloys are tougher than standard ABS and, in…

Alumina
Alumina (Al2O3) is to technical ceramics what mild steel is to metals - cheap, easy to process, the workhorse of the industry. It is the material of spark plugs, electrical insulators and ceramic substrates for microcircuits. In single-crystal form…

Aluminum Alloys, Age-hardening, Wrought
The high-strength aluminum alloys rely on age-hardening - a sequence of heat treatment steps that causes the precipitation of a nano-scale dispersion of intermetallics that impede dislocation motion and impart strength. This can be as high as 700 MPa…

Aluminum/Silicon carbide composite
Metal matrix composites are metals reinforced with ceramic particles. The most widely used are based on aluminum reinforced with particles of silicon carbide or alumina. The reinforcement increases the stiffness, strength and maximum service…

Ash, longitudinal
Pictured is ash from the Eastern U.S White ash trees. 4.6% of commercially available U.S. hardwoods are made of ash.

Ash, transverse
Pictured is ash from the Eastern U.S White ash trees. 4.6% of commercially available U.S. hardwoods are made of ash.

Balsa, longitudinal
Balsa lumber is very soft and light, with a coarse, open grain. The density of dry balsa wood ranges from 40–340 kg/m^3 (2.5–21.2 lb/cu ft), with a typical density of about 160 kg/m^3 (10 lb/cu ft). The wood of the living tree has large cells…

Balsa, transverse
Balsa lumber is very soft and light, with a coarse, open grain. The density of dry balsa wood ranges from 40–340 kg/m^3 (2.5–21.2 lb/cu ft), with a typical density of about 160 kg/m^3 (10 lb/cu ft). The wood of the living tree has large cells…

Bamboo
Bamboo is nature's gift to the construction industry. Think of it - a hollow tube, exceptionally strong and light, growing so fast that it can be harvested after a year, and - given a little longer - reaching a diameter of 0.3 meters and a height of…

Birch, longitudinal
Birch is a hardwood harvested in most of the Northern Hemisphere. And even though it is a relative to the oak, the lumber is much harder than oak. Birch is widely used in the cabinet industry, mostly because it makes superior plywood that is stable,…
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