Yep, reminds me of the saying 10,000 bolts to hold it together, but only 1 to take it apart!
And I also do have to say that I have an issue with animations sometime as they can be more loyal to the forces of politics and propaganda than to science. Not saying that is the case but it wouldn't be the first time a company went into CYA mode.
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There is a lot of engineering done to prevent failures. Sometimes all for nought. The Alaska Airlines plane that crashed into the Pacific crashed because they did not maintain the horizontal stabilizer jackscrew properly.
When I started my career as a metallurgist in the '60s there were only two or three books on the subject and there were only rare articles and few seminars about failure analysis.And no fancy names like FMEA. It's a fascinating subject and very challenging.The first book published was an outcome of the new use of aluminum in aircraft by the Navy in the '30s .That's when they found that things like stamped part numbers on props could cause a failure.It's grown a lot from there.
The loss of the space shuttle Challenger was one such disaster. Cold O rings at launch. Another was a casting defect in a engine rotating component that caused a DC-10 to crash. The loss of the nuclear submarine Scorpion is another very interesting disaster. Like the brothers at the top of the page, a lot of experience had to occur to learn what worked and what didn't and why.....
Originally posted by Mark: Yep, reminds me of the saying 10,000 bolts to hold it together, but only 1 to take it apart!
And I also do have to say that I have an issue with animations sometime as they can be more loyal to the forces of politics and propaganda than to science. Not saying that is the case but it wouldn't be the first time a company went into CYA mode.
No slight understatement, for certain...
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