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93 floors located at 200 Park Avenue at East 45th Street, New York City, New York.

Stark Tower was built and designed by Tony Stark and Pepper Potts. Originally, Tony intended that everything from the penthouse and above would be a luxury home for the two of them. After the battle with the Chitauri, he redesigned and rebuilt the damaged area. As soon as it was finished he donated it as headquarters for the Avengers.

The environmental controls, security, and any connected computer systems are managed by JARVIS throughout the entire building. Any employee can talk to JARVIS and make requests by simply speaking out loud.

The Avengers section - Floor 93 to Floor 82

The top twelve floors include luxury rooms for the Avengers. Each room is designed and decorated according to the specific need or desire of its occupant. There are several dozen unassigned rooms that are used for guests or visitors as needed. There is a state of the art fitness room, private theater, medical area, kitchen, and the former penthouse serves as a common room. There is also a highly secure room filled with all of Tony’s latest technology that serves as a staging room for Avengers related missions.

The section is accessed by a private elevator via a back entrance into Stark Tower from the ground floor. Only Bruce Banner and Tony Stark can currently access the elevator from the Stark Industries section.

The Party Deck - Floor 81

There is a landing pad for helicopters or any VTOL aircraft. There is also Tony’s personal landing pad which includes a walkway for his armor removal. The deck access the common room by the windowed doors and a door at the end of Tony’s walkway.

Tony and Pepper’s apartment - Floor 80

The floor under the party deck was redesigned as an apartment for the couple. They are the only two that have unlimited access to that floor, but either can allow guests.

Tony’s workshop - Floor 79

The floor under the apartment is where Tony works on his latest suit designs and inventions. Pepper has access to the workshop. There is a private freight elevator for moving large pieces into and out of the workshop. That connects to his ground floor garage workshop.

Stark Industries - Floor 78 to 1

Everything below Tony’s workshop belongs to Stark Industries.

Floor 78 and 77 contain the executive offices. Tony’s office is next to Pepper’s.

Floor 76 contains various board rooms and meeting rooms.

Floor 75 to 66 are dedicated to R&D.

Floor 75 Bruce’s lab is the top most secure floor. Bruce and Tony have unlimited access to it. Bruce has been given the authority to allow or deny access on a case by case basis.

Floor 74 through 70 are the classified sections of R&D usually dealing with SHIELD or other government agencies.

Floor 69 through 66 are the business and philanthropic research areas.

Floor 65 to 61 contain several biological laboratories

Floor 60 to 56 are for testing various new Stark designs

Floor 55 to floor 2 contain everything else needed for Stark Industries business functioning

Floor 1 has the lobby area where the public comes into Stark Tower. There’s also the private access area for the Avengers and Tony’s garage workshop.

The floors below Stark Tower contain the Arc Reactor that runs the entire building.

[This is. So. Freaking. Useful.]

Oh, have a look at 66 through 69.

As a NFP researcher, I find the phrase “philanthropic research” super interesting. The “business research” is probably Competitive Intelligence – benchmarking, investigative due diligence, the legal aspects of corporate espionage – and also research on companies Stark Industries would like to invest in. At Tony’s level, Stark Industries is less a business and more a holding company for business interests, so if he wanted to say, buy a small green energy company, Business Research is who he would ask to find him the best one possible.

It’s unclear whether “philanthropic research” indicates research into philanthropic applications of Stark technology or whether that indicates the Maria Stark Foundation (or some other arm of Tony’s philanthropy; he may have more than one) is housed there. It may be the offices of the CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) arm of Stark Industries, if CSR isn’t managed by the Maria Stark Foundation. Which it probably isn’t – Tony would want to keep Maria Stark and Stark Industries separate, especially since CSR often has the reputation of being apologia for the nasty shit corporations do.

So probably Philanthropic Research is CSR and R&D into how SI can help the world. Regardless, super interesting that he keeps some, possibly most, aspects of his philanthropic work so close. Most companies segment off their CSR into a separate building, and family foundations of wealthy individuals in industry are usually well separate from the industry itself. If the Maria Stark Foundation is in the Stark Industries building itself that says a lot of good things about Tony’s relationship to his philanthropy, especially post-Afghanistan.

Definitely need to use this when people say Tony doesn’t care about helping people, or he just throws money at problems and walks away.

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Dissecting Iron Man Suit - An Engineering Analysis

Structural, energy, and thermal analysis of Iron Man Suits specifically Mark I to Mark XLVI which have the following capabilities in common: external armor, supersonic flight, hovering, weaponry, and decoy flares.

1. STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Wear Resistant and Shock Absorbent Exoskeleton
The physical protective value of exoskeleton is its ability to resist any penetrative loads as well as any shock loads. However, the whole thickness of exoskeleton panels should not be too hard because it will pass on the external impact load into the suit’s internal hardware, or even the human body inside it. All of this can be achieved by combining more than one materials; a hard material on the outside and the soft material on the inside

Hard Outer Layer for Penetrative LoadsThe materials needed for the exoskeleton’s outer layer should be hard and tactile. Titanium Alloy would be an ideal choice. Fiber glass has good tensile strength but not good shear strength, while titanium has both .Titanium Alloy is not only much stronger, but is also lighter than steel, which will provide more fluidity of movement compared to any heavy material counterparts.

Ductile Inner Layer for Shock LoadsThere should be a soft inner linings behind titanium panels to serve as shock absorbent. Sorbothane is a material that is extremely soft and has the ability to convert shock loads into heat transfer at a molecular level. It is a proprietary, visco-elastic polymer. Visco-elastic means that a material exhibits properties of both liquids (viscous solutions) and solids (elastic materials).

Sorbothane is a thermoset, polyether-based, polyurethane material. Sorbothane combines shock absorption, good memory, vibration isolation and vibration damping characteristics. In addition, Sorbothane is a very effective acoustic damper and absorber. Even if one drops an egg from the top of a building into a bed of sorbothane, this remarkable material is soft enough to cushion the impact and would not allow the egg to break.

This technique of having a hard material on the outside and the soft material on the inside is not new. It has been used for centuries in Japan for making samurai swords. The hardness of its outer layer give the swords its cutting edge and penetrative power, and its ductility allows it to absorb shock loads when it strikes or struck.

2. ENERGY ANALYSIS : Hovering Capability

Hovering using thrusters (aka repulsors) requires tremendous amount of energy, particularly when the suit is used for a long duration. Energy usage for hovering is dependent upon the hovering methods

Magnetic Levitation requires no energy at all, but is limited to the presence of magnetic field.

Ducted and Open Propellers (helicopter blades). Several human powered helicopters have been made overtime that have achieved flight. It has been experimentally recorded that a 78 kg person in a 58 kg copter requires only 1.1 kW to climb using helicopter blades, and only 60 Watts to maintain altitude.

Jet Thrust is the least energy-efficient method. Because thrust-to-weight ratio needs to be greater than 1 to achieve lift-off, a Jet-pack requires over 1KN of thrust force, depending on the weight of the jet and the person. If wings are attached to the jet-pack, horizontal flight can be achieved with thrust to weight ratio lower than 1, thus improving the duration of the flight and its range.There have been jet-packs made in the past, most iconic display of it was in 1994 Olympics opening ceremony. The fuel used in the jet-pack was mostly hydrogen peroxide. It provides thrust at low temperature compared to other fuels. However, it has low energy density of 810 Wh/kg, giving the jet-packs up to only 30 seconds of flight-time. Jet’s flight time is limited even by using energy-rich fossil fuel. Yves Rossy (aka Jet Man) has successfully used kerosene oil in his flight, but the thruster jets have to be pushed away from the body for safety. His suit allows only several minutes of flight. In addition, if a heavier suit (greater than 25 kg) is used, hydraulics are needed, which would require additional energy and slow down mobility. The Iron Monger suit was an example of hydraulic-driven mobility suit.

3. POWER SOURCE

Tony Stark manages the suit’s energy requirements, including thermal management and artificial intelligence system, through the fictional arc reactor. The reactor is able to provides almost limitless clean energy despite being a very small device. In real life, the only thing that has an energy density comparable to the arc reactor, and would meet all the energy requirements of the suit would be nuclear power. Uranium (fission) energy density is 80.620.000 MJ/kg. However, nuclear power is not suitable to be harnessed in a manned suit, since it generates a tremendous amount of heat.

A more practical solution would be a battery energy-storage. If lithium batteries are used on propeller blades, minutes-long flight time can be achieved. Furthermore, these batteries can readily power suit’s electrical devices / electronics requirements. Lithium ion battery has energy density of 150 Wh/kg (0.5 MJ/kg). Fossil fuel, on the other hand, have a much higher energy density than batteries, but would require a clunky generator to power the suit’s electrical requirements.

Lithium sulfur batteries have 5 times more energy density compared to lithium ion batteries. Lithium sulfur packs had already powered the longest unmanned flight for more than 30 hours. Unless we discover something like an arc-reactor, lithium sulfur batteries could be just the thing to power up the suit. The downside is, it requires hours of charging for just minutes of usage.

There is an alternative option, though not a ‘reactor’ proper. A compact and high-output generator (standard car alternators crank out 50-70 amps at 12 volts for years, and some can go as high as 150 amps) could be spun by a small and strong output electric motor (all alternators have to do is spin). That motor can be powered by a high density battery like used for electric bikes in the 1500w to 2500w range at 20 something volts. This would power a strong and small motor at 3500 to 4000 rpm for hours. That’s more than enough to create power for a number of systems, if they’re built to take advantage of the amperage. And with new constructions of carbon arrays coming out every day, one or more of those could bring a meaningful electric output increase in an otherwise standard generator, even above what we have in cars now.

4. THERMAL MANAGEMENT

The suit cannot be hermetically sealed. Human body heat evaporates water from the skin. Therefore, air ventilation is necessary to remove them. It is also needed to maintain a good supply of oxygen. So, there must be a structure inside the exoskeleton that allows air flow. This would prevent any internal condensation to settle and will also remove buildup of body heat. The layer of sorbothene would act both as a thermal and an electrical insulator. This means that extreme external temperature would not be transferred to the inner layer. The suit would not get too hot or too cold from the outer environment. There should be small fans to draw and pull air from the ambient in controlled amount, and should be able to exchange hot air. With the technology available today, the thermal management of the suit is easily manageable. There are also solid state devices such as thermal pads and thermoelectric generators. Thermoelectric generators can surfaces hot or cold depending on the polarity of the electric current and thus can be an integral component of the suit for controlling the internal temperature.

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Notice that Tony doesn’t say “Give me back my partner” or “give me back my friend.” He says “Give me back my Rhodey” Which implies the special (and frankly, irreplaceable) space Rhodey occupies within Tony’s life. Tony was specific in his wording (Give me back my “Rhodey” and affectionate nickname, as opposed to “James” or “Rhodes”, a nickname which Tony uses in place of his actual name “James”)

Looking at Tony throughout the MCU, he’s dealt with betrayal, guilt, PTSD, and an overall anger that consumed most of his actions in the final act of CACW. With the destruction of the Avengers morale, the fact that Tony and Pepper are “on a break”, the guilt he feels for causing Ultron, and the endangerment of millions of people, the only thing Tony has left after the events of CACW is his “Rhodey”.

And seeing Giant man take hold of Rhodey during the airport fight was far more than just dramatic action, it was Tony Stark, for the briefest of seconds, seeing the only good thing left in his world being snatched from him. Which makes Rhodey’s fall even more impactful. It’s more than apparent that James Rhodes is the center of Tony’s entire world right now.

At the end of the film, after Rhodes’ fall, during the trial run of Rhodey’s new mechanical legs, you could clearly see Tony doting on Rhodes, Offering to help him be as comfortable as possible, willing to add any modifications Rhodey asked for (including a cup holder if Rhodey had asked for one).It wouldn’t surprise me if Tony insisted Rhodey stay with him in the mansion so he could keep an eye on his “Rhodey”

Of course, this affection (whether platonic or otherwise) is also shared by Rhodey (from searching through the entire desert to find Tony to making sure he was sleeping enough in IM3). What I find interesting about this role reversal is that Tony tends to overcompensate (again, going back to the scene where Tony was willing to make any modification Rhodes asked for) but Rhodey never blames Tony (or anyone for that matter) about his current situation, he jokes with Tony (Tony Stank) in an attempt to lighten an otherwise negative situation. Rhodey is upset/disappointed/sad about his current situation (“This is a bad beat”) but he never, ever, blames Tony. Which is something Tony would probably expect given his transgressions listed earlier. Think about that, Rhodey provided Tony with a brief reprieve from the guilt that had been building since Iron Man 1, and who else in the entirety of the MCU franchise has done that?

Not Steve Rogers, or Bruce Banner, or even Thor with his ideals of second chances (he did give Loki multiple chances to redeem himself, right?)

Throughout the MCU Rhodey is the one thing that hasn’t blown up in Tony’s face. He’s the one thing that Tony can still trust not to betray him, or keep secrets. Rhodey is the one person who doesn’t make Tony feel guilty about his past mistakes (and that’s quite a feat when your mistakes are easily the size of the entire planet.) Rhodey is so much more to Tony than just a “side kick.”

When Tony says “Give me back my Rhodey” what he means is “Give me back my world.”