Hulk imploded the Abomination’s face with a punch. We will calculate Abomination’s durability in order to estimate Hulk’s super strength.
ABOMINATION’S DURABILITY
In
Thor (1970) #178, Thor ends up on the Stranger’s prison-world called Labworld. At the beginning of the issue, Abomination crash-lands from space on Labworld. Incredibly, he survives re-entry with no damage.
In
Thor (1970) #178, Abomination crash-lands from space on Labworld. Marvel Comics
We will use this feat to estimate Hulk’s super strength.
NUMBER CRUNCHING
Since Abomination crash landed on Labworld with no damage, he can survive planetary re-entry. From
The Appendix To The Handbook of The Marvel Universe, we find that Labworld is about the size of Uranus and about 4 times Earth’s gravity. And Abomination has a mass of 444.52 kg.
If we assume that Abomination’s re-entry is approximately from the altitude of Uranus’ rings, low orbit was around 12000 km. Let’s calculate the total energy from his kinetic energy and potential energy assuming it was re-entry on Uranus. On Uranus,
the proposed re-entry speeds for future probes are 26000 meters per second.
ENERGY FROM RE-ENTRY
Total Energy = U = 1/2mv
2 + mgh = (0.5)(444.52 kg *
260002 m/s) + (444.52 kg
* 9.81 m/s2 * 4 * 12000000 m) = 281327817600 J.
Then, we can estimate Abomination’s durability from his re-entry by calculating the temperature he can withstand.
Abomination’s re-entry temperature = (281327817600 J)/(444.52 kg *4182 J kg °C) = 151334.289813 °C.
The Abomination’s impact force = (281327817600 J)/(12000000 m) = 23443.9848 N.
TENSILE STRESS AND THERMAL STRESS
Below, the Abomination’s tensile stress is 13.60105 psi or 0.093776 MegaPascals but his thermal stress is 1,039 MegaPascals.
In our calculations, we assumed that the Abomination’s face was roughly 50 cm by 50 cm in dimensions, for an area of 2500 cm
2. Since Abomination’s face can withstand 1,039 MegaPascals of thermal stress, that equals the force of Hulk’s punch.
KINETIC ENERGY AND POWER
In terms of energy and power we get the following:
Energy = (1.039*10
9 N/m
2)(2000 cm
2)(1 m) = 2.068*10
8 J.
Kinetic Energy = Energy = (0.5mv
2).
v = (KE/(0.5m))
0.5 = ((2.068*10
8 J)/(0.5*45.3592 kg))
0.5 = 3019.65670265 m/s.
Time = d/v = (1 m)/(3019.65670265 m/s) = 0.00033116347 s.
Power = (2.068*10
8 J)/(0.00033116347 s) = 624465011192 W.
SUPER STRENGTH
Hulk matched Abomination’s durability and generated 624465011192 W of power imploding his face with his punch. In order to implode Abomination’s face, Hulk had to generate a Town-Level of Super Strength.
For information about the Power Level Scale, visit the
Power Level Wiki.
