We may be losing track here...
As someone stated earlier here, Levin was again foaming at the mouth regarding the (possible) steel tariffs. I also heard him last night, and in his rant he was stating that the majority of domestically used steel is produced in the USA. Could be...don’t know...didn’t check up on it. So IMO we can relax a little bit about existing systems and structures not meeting specs and will have to be changed out. Most common piping systems are really over-spec’d. They tend to have a lot of safety factor built-in.
However, the Q drops alluded to steel in military usage. What if Kobe had a proprietary alloy that we relied on, say for some super critical areas in tanks and APCs that perhaps did not meet the required ballistic spec’s? Those types of vehicles need to watch their weight, so it’s quite important that personnel protection be achieved by tough materials where simply adding another 1” of armor won’t fly.
What if the steel was purposely made crappy through some nefarious CF deal? I think that’s where we need to focus.
Indeed. Most applications have no safety ramification whatsoever. Those that do have a safety ramification generally have substantial "safety factor" and often independent means of providing the safety function.
-- Every project that is slated to use that sh|t steel is now suspect. --
... the data falsification scandal, which primarily involved employees saying incorrectly that products met the company's own lofty safety claims. Customers like Toyota and Honda have said they have not found any safety issues related to the company's products.
As I said at the outset, the devil is in the details. What exactly is amiss? The beverage can makers reported no issues.
Containment vessels for nuclear reactors, anyone? Those are among the ones that the particular steel allow is REALLY important. . . especially for tensile strength over time and radiation exposure.
Wonder what was in the Japanese nuke that failed?