[modeleng] Re: Rivet forensics

Thanks for sharing.
 
I've heard opinion that the steel of the hull was cold short and brittle in the 
cold N Atlantic water which might also give the same sort of damage?
 
In your link it talks of the rivets being made of best iron, which sounds good 
until you know there is best best iron. I have copies of some of the 
information disclosed to the Inquiry following the Tay Bridge disaster of 1879. 
Some of the cast iron was made of best iron but there was not only best best 
but also best best best iron and the best iron was essentially slag by the 
sound of it.
 
> To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [modeleng] Rivet forensics> Date: Tue, 
> 15 Apr 2008 05:15:03 +0000> From: bede@xxxxxxx> > Hardly a model, but 
> certainly related to the field, this article claims> to solve the riddle of 
> the sinking of the Titanic. And I always thought> it hit an iceberg...> > 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/15titanic.html?pagewanted=3D1&_r=3D=>
>  1&hp> > Bede in on-again/off-again spring in Brooklyn (now mid-30sF and> 
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