Monday, July 6, 2020

How to topple a statue using science.


The Morning News https://ift.tt/2Y3YmTh

Yield strength changes a lot with temperature. A 90% copper/10% tin statue, for example, will have a yield strength at room temperature of 31.4 megapascals—that’s compared to 275 MPa for 6061 aluminum—“so structurally, it’s not hard to break.”

↩︎ Popular Mechanics

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