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As you can see on this chart, piano wire has the 3rd highest ultimate strength overall behind Carbon Fiber and UHMWPE and the highest of all the metals. It is made of A228 high carbon spring steel usually.
Ive looked at and admired Mission Knives quite a bit, with their Ti blades. They show alot of vids/pics demonstrating the plasticity and toughness of the titanium blades. With that said, how does Ti and Ti alloys compare to Carbon spring steels in flexibility/strength?
Also, the military uses Armor Piercing Fin Stabilized Discarding Sabot rounds to take out enemy tanks at over 2000m, depending on atmospheric conditions, but detailed specs are classified. Anyway, these rounds are basically long, narrow darts made of Depleted Uranium. Would it make it easier to penetrate plate if the sword, spear-point, or arrowhead were made of DU? Kind of a crazy question, I know, and it would most likely be much much heavier, just wondering if there would be any difference in armor penetration having the weapon or point made of something so dense?
This is what they look like:
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Mass X Velocity = Force. If you can keep the velocity constant the heavier tip will do more damage/ penetrate better. Of course the tip also has to not deform under the impact to a degree that excessively changes impact surface. Hence iron sword lighter but better than Lead sword