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 (…)
via More to Titanic Disaster Than “Faulty Rivets” – Global Fastener News – USA.