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Titanic sub CEO was on a 'predatory' mission to convince influential people to support his unsafe vessel, says expert (www.insider.com)

submitted 1 year ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] communication@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Whistleblower asked for non destructive examination of the material to understand its flaw structure

Do you know what would have been involved here? Some kind of imaging, I assume?

Thanks for the write up!

[–] CherenkovBlue@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

Typically it is ultrasound, or X-ray CT. It does become difficult to do with large pieces and/or thick sections, but I don't know if this hull was too large. However, if the manufacturing process were qualified using smaller pieces that were testable with NDE/DE or a full size piece that was DE, that would generally be acceptable for the large component.