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Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by dfc on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:27AM (#7671608)

  > Perfect graphene can take ~100 Gigapascals (14 million pounds per square
  > inch) of force before it breaks...imperfect graphene...~4 Megapascals (580
  > pounds per square inch).
Can anyone put these numbers in perspective? I understand that 100 Gigapascals is a lot, AKA more than anything I personally own. What items does the common person interact-with/own that require > 4 megapascals? I have to imagine that my old titanium lacrosse shaft could handle more than 4 megapascals.

CONTEXT ADDENDUM: Graphene hammer handle versus Hickory Handle?

Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by nether on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:37AM (#7671630)
Sure. 100 GPa is 14.5e6 psi. The pressure of an adult human standing on the ground is 1-2 psi (depending on weight, foot size). Pretty much all metals begin to yield at or less than 40e3-70e3 psi.
Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by saraid216 on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @01:48AM (#7671813)
Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by analog31 on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:39AM (#7671637)
I love Google unit conversion. Just enter "100 psi to pascals" as a search phrase and you get an answer. Based on this, it's possible to note some typical things converted into Pascals:

Bike tire pressure 100 psi = 690 kPa

Tensile strength of 6061 aluminum (the most common alloy) = 45000 psi = 310 MPa

Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by dfc on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:52AM (#7671672)
Whenever people say that they like google's unit conversion I like to mention GNU units. I would be surprised if google does a unit conversion that units can not handle.

After reading the aluminum statistic it seems that graphene is not going to replace my titanium shaft (that replaced the aluminum shaft).

Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by ewillbefull on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @01:05AM (#7671713)
Can GNU units or anything like it accept a string such as "100F to C" and understand what I'd like? If so I'd love to use that instead.
Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by dfc on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @01:39AM (#7671794)
Temperature conversions are a little goofy because they are nonlinear. Google's 100F to C is:

  dfc@ronin:~$ units
  2866 units, 109 prefixes, 79 nonlinear units
  
  You have: tempF(100)
  You want: tempC
          37.777778
The full explanation is here: https://www.gnu.org/software/units/manual/units.html#Tempera...
Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by Tloewald on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @07:30AM (#7672627)
I followed the like because I thought maybe i've been doimg temperature conversioms wrong all my life. Temperature conversions are so linear. They need to use a more correct term — e.g. simply proportional.

Having to add or substract a constant before or after scaling does not make a relationship non-linear.

Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by sixbrx on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @07:48AM (#7672668)
This may be getting pedantic, but the relationship is affine not linear - linear would mean k times the original input would yield k times the original output.
Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by est on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @03:21AM (#7672007)
It does not convert currencies like Google.
Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by dfc on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @11:33AM (#7673972)
Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by dhruvtv on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:35AM (#7671627)
580 pounds per sq. inch seems a lot for household applications. Say a human were to stand on a Graphene TV, it would be ~250 pounds on ~100 sq. inches, i.e. 2.5 psi.
Re:Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel by stan_rogers on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @06:28AM (#7672471)
It seems like a lot until you take into account a woman of middling weight wearing high(ish) heels, which (when in good condition) often have a "footprint" of about 1/16 of a square inch (and much less if, as is often the case since the lift material doesn't last very long, the heal has been worn through to the pin).