Sentences with phrase «thick sheet steel»

Not exact matches

Cold - formed steel pieces, commonly used to frame low - and mid-rise buildings, are made by bending sheet metal, roughly one - millimeter - thick, into structural shapes without using heat.

He works with graphene, a stronger - than - steel infinitesimally thin lattice of tightly packed carbon atoms, and carbon nanotubes — sheets of graphene rolled into hollow tubes with walls that are just one atom thick.

Graphene, a single - atom - thick sheet of carbon, is stronger than steel and as stiff as diamond.

Well, apparently Nasa told me that the craft that went to the moon didn't get radiation because they went between the sun flair's, and spent only a few minutes in the Van Allen Belt's, despite the fact that their craft's bulkhead and hul was only made of ligthweight aluminium based steel sheeting, 2.8 th of mil thick, and no one yet has been able to predict or map the flares from the sun.

As the load acting on the firewall during a frontal crash is greatest in the lower section, the sheet steel used here is almost twice as thick.

In the 1990s Bustamante experimented with a series of paintings on thick, sculptural sheets of silk - screened Plexiglas fastened to the wall with steel brackets.