Remember the 80’s movie, Flashdance? The female lead, Jennifer Beals, was a welder by day in a Pittsburgh steel mill and for many people that was their first glimpse of what a welder did for a living.
ORNL’s Zhili Feng designs weld wire to match or exceed strengths of various steel alloys. In a weld, it counteracts stress caused by stretching with stress caused by compression. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...