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Turns out during the MANUFACTURING process, the steel used to build the ⛴️ #hull was NOT good at handling cold weather & #ThermalCycling

🥶🔁🥵 ➡️ Steel became #brittle over ⏳
Eventually it got so brittle it just snapped under normal #torsional and/or #bending loads from 🌊 & normal 💦 operation!

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the #vibrations, #ThermalCycling, #torsion, #bending, #ImpactLoading & keep #CyclicFatigue at bay - ya know ALLLLLLLLLLLL the things ANY component is subjected to over its lifetime.

Selecting proper materials ➡️ most critical part of the design!

W/o #science we wouldn't know what each material

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