HYDRAULIC PRESS VS HARDEST STEEL, USA, RUSSIA, CHINA

Damn. I was going to try this at home. Then I realised that I didn't have a 500 tonne hydraulic press. Damn.

Hardened Steel: "I fear no man but that thing" *Ceramic ball* It scares me."

This puts into perspective how amazing steel alloys are and why a lot of our world is built from steel. Seeing the tungsten squish more than the steel was fascinating. Seeing the ceramic split the steel of the press was astonishing

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that on an atomic level, these materials are all held together by simple electrical bonds.

I always thought this press was huge till I seen your fingers lol

When the ceramic ball broke the press I kind of went wide eyed.

USA and China: oh no hydraulic press scary Russia: is nothing

Got to love the disclaimer at the start about not trying this at home. Hands up how many of you have an industrial press in the back yard 🤣.

In Russia, steel compresses you.

So the reason the steel is so much stronger than the pure metals like tungsten and aluminum is because in an alloy the intermixture of carbon and steel break up the crystalline structure of the metal. Unalloyed metals are pretty uniform, so once enough energy is applied on the Y axis, the mass shifts on the X axis. With alloys, the intermix causes deformation and structure that act as bracing on a molecular level. As the steel cools, millions of tiny pockets of varying concentration precipitate out at random as the steel fixes. The result is an internal structure that is far stronger than the pure, crystalline metal. Then when you process the steel, you are actually manipulating these structures into more effective shapes, fixing them when the steel is quenched and hardened. It's a huge science and really interesting to see it in action.

I’m impressed with the Russian.

Болел за наш кубик как на Олимпийских играх! С победой, товарищи русские и народы России!

Р6М5 действительно хорошая сталь. Например, свёрла по металлу Р6М5 в разы лучше HSS

Imagine a shelter made out of the Russian steel

Этот эксперимент лишь малая часть работы технологов. Четвертый год обучаюсь металлургии, знаю в общих чертах производство, но никак не могу выбрать область в которой хотел бы работать, всё нравится) Если кто-нибудь знает проблемы измерения плоскостности горячекатанного листа, то я был бы рад послушать

It is nuts to think those little cubes can withstand that pressure

Salut. Je suis impressionné, jamais je n'aurais cru, malgré les traitements subis, que de l'acier serait plus dur que du tungstène. Les russes ont clairement une longueur d'avance, même si elle est minime, sur leur technologie de l'acier... Merci, vraiment intéressant.

This video contains no information on the source of these materials or heat treatment info. A few things to, m35 is not the hardest, m42 is and both aren't 69 hrc, around 64 hrc. If you need the hardest steel look for Rex 121, an American steel regarded as the hardest up to 71 hrc.

In Russia, the hardest steel press hydraulic press.

The Russian hardened steel look more harder than the US ones lmfao 😹😹😹