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19th October 2006, 03:19 PM
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Hi
there are some good articles out there on brittle fracture.. http://www.key-to-steel.com/default....Article&NM=136 and some of the elements that affect it just my opinion... but i think that swords were rather effective close combat sidearms.... ( spear being no. 1 ) .... - there has to be some value to it..... or why would so many cultures value such a costly item... ( you can make many spears out of one sword ) ... besides, iron production back then was very small scale compared to today... so your limited interms of materials to which you can use for war.. -- even the northlands valued the sword.. as is evidenced by the viking blades... and the complex patternwelds - are there any Rc tests done on viking blades... - from the few museum curators that i emailed ... (Longtime ago) they mentioned that the northern swords had a lower Rc ....somewhere round 40 - but i've never seen those stat's anywhere steel is such a complicated thing.... uggh Greg 
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