What pisses me off the most about this is that it wasn’t until year 32 that it was found out.
I can foresee someone to knucklehead really important studies. But it seems the company itself found out about the problem before the Navy even investigated it!
Do they even double check these projects?
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.