“the fire would have damaged the ship’s bulkhead, a wall of steel within the ship’s hull, and made it more vulnerable after it was pierced by an iceberg.” [emphasis added.]
See, that was the “body of bronze, feet of clay” irony revealed by the analysis of the hull section Woods Hole salvaged: The hull plates were the best quality steel. Ichiban, A-#1. The rivets, on the other hand, were cheap brittle pig iron. Against the grinding pressure those tough high-ductility steel plates merely flexed like aircraft Fiberglas - and all those rivets popped like so many snap fasteners. Uh oh… +
The coal fire is news to me, and I thank you for that further information, but it wouldn't have mattered without that nasty irony of materials engineering - no pun intended.
+ “Uh oh” - the last words captured by the cabin recorder aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, 28 January 1986
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Re: RMS Iceberg
Date: 27 Dec 2018 05:40 (UTC)“the fire would have damaged the ship’s bulkhead, a wall of steel within the ship’s hull,
and made it more vulnerable after it was pierced by an iceberg.” [emphasis added.]
See, that was the “body of bronze, feet of clay” irony revealed by the analysis of the hull section Woods Hole salvaged: The hull plates were the best quality steel. Ichiban, A-#1. The rivets, on the other hand, were cheap brittle pig iron. Against the grinding pressure those tough high-ductility steel plates merely flexed like aircraft Fiberglas - and all those rivets popped like so many snap fasteners. Uh oh… +
The coal fire is news to me, and I thank you for that further information, but it wouldn't have mattered without that nasty irony of materials engineering - no pun intended.
+ “Uh oh” - the last words captured by the cabin recorder aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, 28 January 1986