Posted on 09/27/2018 8:19:33 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Solid cargoes like crushed ore or sand can suddenly turn to liquid… and cause the ship to sink. And the phenomenon happens more frequently than you might think...
Solid bulk cargoes are typically ‘two-phase’ materials as they contain water between the solid particles. When the particles can touch, the friction between them makes the material act like a solid (even though there is liquid present). But when the water pressure rises, these inter-particle forces reduce and the strength of the material decreases. When the friction is reduced to zero, the material acts like a liquid (even though the solid particles are still present)...
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Like thixotropic, only different.
The ships don’t liquify, the cargo does. . .yet another symptom of the deterioration of our education system. This is not just shoddy grammar, it is shoddy thinking.
Of course when this article first appeared, it had a stock photo of a CONTAINER ship. To which, of course, this article doesn’t even apply.
I just can’t stand the mainstream media. Sorry, for going off thread. It is interesting.
Solid cargo magically liquefying? Color me skeptical.
Not a lot different than the Long-Runout landslides............
Interestingly, a study shows that people typically have their own healthy shade of color but under the correct conditions of temperature and pressure can spontaneously change phase to skeptical coloration. This is actually quite dangerous as it can cause strokes to university admissions personnel, government census takers, democratic politicans, or anyone else who bases the bulk of their lives on the coloration of others.
clever
The article doesn’t say that. The headline has it in semi-quotes.
Tale a break.
Edmund Fitzgerald?
The ships don’t liquify, the cargo does. . .yet another symptom of the deterioration of our education system. This is not just shoddy grammar, it is shoddy thinking.
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It’s a Fake News click bait headline, but that doesn’t stop people from posting it on FR.
Although, being practical, the way to really check it out would be to compare the insurance rates, for bulk cargo ships versus other types of cargo vessels, irrespective of cargo.
-—Edmund Fitzgerald?-—
Good question. That was a ship that also went down quickly and was caring bulk ore.
It doesn’t turn liquid. Mix enough water in and you get a slurry that can flow and throw off the stabilty of the ship. Your nice pile of ore can start moving side to side or front to back and cause the ship to capsize.
Edmund Fitzgerald?
Was carrying pellets aprox 3/8” in diameter.
Iron ore fines, yes, pellets, not so much.
Photos
http://bulkcarrierguide.com/cargo-liquefaction.html
See link with photos in #16.
More related to fluid bed, not liquid.
Same mother, different brother.
And here I thought the ships could “liquify” like the setting on my blender.
I was thinking if we could get Harry Belafonte to load one of those boats, we could make the world’s biggest banana smoothee.
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