Posted on 06/26/2023 9:42:29 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
The title of this article is rather broad and audacious, so let’s do what all good engineers would do and set the boundary conditions for the analysis.
All calculations will be approximate given the time invested in this analysis and the purpose thereto. Some assumptions and engineering judgments will be made due to the lack of independently verified information and data. This analysis is meant to be brief and the intended audience is both engineers and non-engineers (for educational purposes). Why am I writing this – out of some sort of ghoulish focus on death? Well, engineers study the ghoulish consequences of the failures of other engineers as part of our profession. Consider the fact that most engineers can explain the cause of the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse (if you can’t, you shouldn’t be an engineer), the Tacoma Narrows bridge failure, the Union Carbide Bhopal disaster, and the space shuttle Challenger disaster (where Morton Thiokol was told to take off their engineer hats and put on their manager hats when considering O-ring temperature certification). This is part of what we do to become better.
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Bkmrk
At least the billionaires died doing what they loved:
Spending extravagant money on stupid things to get their kicks
Is it because of the 1898 novel "Futility: The Wreck of the Titan", published by the U.S. writer Morgan Robertson? The 1898 Titan was the largest ship in the world and unsinkable. It sank 14 years (in print form) before the Titanic.
The novel that predicted the sinking of the Titanic, 14 years before it happened
Bkmrk
As an engineer I can say the Titan was a POS with lipstick on it.
“I would assess that it’s mostly likely that the catastrophic failure the Titan sustained was caused by the viewport. It was previously stated by the CEO that each time he descended to that depth, the viewport deformed several inches inward.”
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Yikes, several inches of deformation.
Sounds like giants hate water!
8+(
Agreed. They were absolutely insane to use carbon fiber/titanium threads. Carbon fiber doesn’t deform like metals. It shatters catastrophically when it goes beyond its tolerances. There is simply no way that I would bet my life on this design.
Excellent!
A carbon fiber shell could be crushed by he weight of atoddler with the resin. Who would enter a submarine held togther with glue?
“...Thoughts on What Engineering Is and Is Not...”
It’s time to stop the Liberal habit of playing with definitions.
Go ahead and flame me here
From what I’ve been hearing the company cut corners all over the place and avoided certification because they knew it would fail.
If all that proves to be the case, what led to this incident is nothing less than gross negligence IMO.
Wow! The veiwport was only 21 inches across!
It wasn’t strong enough to withstand the pressure. Analysis complete.
The failure of a single part caused the Titan to implode. That part was the gray mass between Stockton Rush’s ears.
What was really stupid IMHO is that the Titan had no windows so they could only view anything on computer monitors or tv screens inside it. They could have viewed the same thing from the surface with none of the water pressure risk. The whole thing is mind boggling.
First error, the density of seawater is 64 lbs/ft3 not 62.4 which is the value for freshwater.
Who wants to read more about the submarine accident? It happened 10 days ago. The only reason we were hearing about it constantly for the five days after that was the need for news media to milk the story for more commercials and to keep people from talking about Biden corruption. The navy heard the noise of the implosion and told the coast guard. They kept the information under wraps to stretch out the news cycle. And here we are rehashing a comprehensive analysis of a fairly simple occurrence in the same way as we might analyze the crushing of a soda can, which has about the same value intellectually.
A profoundly true statement.
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