More to Titanic Disaster Than "Faulty Rivets"
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More to Titanic Disaster Than “Faulty Rivets”
A hundred years after the Titanic sank, a new article in Physics World titled “The Perfect Storm” lends credence to research suggesting that “faulty rivets” contributed to the demise of the “unsinkable” steamer.
Of course, the idea that some of Titanic’s rivets were subpar is not a “recent discovery or conclusion,” Joe Greenslade of the Industrial Fasteners Institute told FIN.
“My son wrote his engineering term paper on this subject in 1994,” Greenslade stated.
But the science relayed in “The Perfect Storm” seems plausible. Greenslade characterized the Physics World article as “an accurate accounting of the role brittle rivets played in this disaster.”
“They believe rivets toward the front of the ship snapped on initial impact and then successive rivets snapped like pulling a row of buttons off a shirt as the ship continued its forward momentum,” Greenslade told FIN.
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