Posted on 11/09/2021 12:57:49 PM PST by DFG
Absolutely. There is probably a built-in safety factor though.
She’d be singing a different tune if she were on a sub at test depth.
It damned well does not matter. If she thought the tests were meaningless or unnecessary there are ways to voice that concern. If she thought that they were inadequate she should have called ethics or the Navy inspector general. What she did cannot in any way be justified regardless of whether she was (in some sense) "right".
Her behavior is inexcusable and criminal. Damn right she should go to jail. Pour encourage les autres.
I always tried to put my stuff right in the middle of the test range.
Never pencil whipped anything that human life depends on.
I would say she most definitely followed her “moral compass.”
Not one picture of her out there. Totally scrubbed.
Asian? Or not?
In payola accepting bribes?
One of the standard ways to reproducibly decrease the time slow degradation takes to show up is to expose the material to a larger temperature differential. Something that might take years to reach breaking point at exposure temp will often reach said point far sooner.
I conceded in #34.
She should be put in jail so she can test if metal bars follow testing standards.
<>Was she discovered because of structural problems?<>
That question was answered in the article. Sheesh.
Put her in a small 1 person sized underwater craft made from the defective steel and lower her down to what the navy wanted as crush depth and test the steel that way.
Do the same for all those involved who let 1 person change the test results.
This is like having 1 accountant do the books. They steal for years and only get caught when they go on vacation and someone covers for them.
Not trying to get anyone to concede...just pass on ACCURATE info. FWIW, I "am" a real, hard scientist (PhD Chemist), and this female should rot in jail until she dies.
I would say let the crew of a fast attack have their way with her but I think that would only put them in more danger.
Here is so info on her. Yeah, she’s a Lib.
https://rabidrepublicanblog.com/arrogant-aa-eeo-liar-endangered-submarines/
In one sense, she probably was right. It's highly unlikely that a ship would ever see a water temperature of -100F. The water would be ice long before it got that cold. Note that the Titanic failed because of cold water. The Titanic's hull was made of steel that became brittle at temperatures like those in the North Atlantic. The metal tore, instead of denting when the iceberg was hit. The temperature there, though, was likely a hundred or so degrees warmer than the -100F specification. Steel has come a long way since then.
Nevertheless, her responsibility as an engineer is to get the specification changed, not to falsify the test data.
How did this come to light?
No she belongs executed.
I was a scientist as well (national lab).
Bradken is a Delaware corporation with its principal place of business in Kansas City, Missouri, operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of Bradken Ltd. of Newcastle, Australia, which is a subsidiary of Hitachi Construction Machinery. Elaine Thomas, 66, is a resident of Auburn, Washington.
I wish the military cared as much about the troops as they do their steel.
Most engineering stuff has a “factor of safety” built into it. I do stuff and like precise measurements, even though the standards don’t go into that much detail.
I had a client once tell me that they don’t need the details and precision - just go by the standards. “We multiply your number by 6 anyway as a factor of safety.”
So I’m guessing that in 32 years they never had a failure due to the steel. She may not have added in the factor of safety. Or put it at 2 instead of 6. I think those factors of safety take into account the lawyers rather than science.
If she has a sound argument she could have advanced it. Subsafe came after the Thresher disaster. Over strength is the navy’s choice to make, not hers. She should be executed.
Unforgivable.
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