Interesting for products where the resulting alloy just needs machining - lathing, milling, drilling etc, but more interesting will be what processes will be needed to weld or form such alloyed metals.
Existing high-strength alloys like MP35N are already extraordinarily difficult to machine. The "super alloy" in the story is said to have a compressive yield strength of 2 gigapascals, which is about MP35N tensile yield. Sounds like this "super alloy" isn't that much stronger than existing high strength alloys. It does have some fairly exotic alloying elements, tantalum, niobium and hafnium that probably don't come cheap. This super alloy will be used only in a very few applications.
Interesting for products where the resulting alloy just needs machining - lathing, milling, drilling etc, but more interesting will be what processes will be needed to weld or form such alloyed metals.
Existing high-strength alloys like MP35N are already extraordinarily difficult to machine. The "super alloy" in the story is said to have a compressive yield strength of 2 gigapascals, which is about MP35N tensile yield. Sounds like this "super alloy" isn't that much stronger than existing high strength alloys. It does have some fairly exotic alloying elements, tantalum, niobium and hafnium that probably don't come cheap. This super alloy will be used only in a very few applications.