Luxan Thavarajah
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Assignment I
Metallurgy of the RMS Titanic
Introduction
In 19th century, Titanic was the largest moving man-made object in world. And it was the largest luxurious ship in the world has shown the cost of wrong material selection, inappropriate design and unsuitable technology used. Even though a gigantic iceberg caused the titanic to sink inferior materials used in the applications, wrong reverts design, and in quality irons that used in application also forced the ships to sink so quickly. (Reference: metallurgy of the RMS titanic, Tim Foecke)
Materials used in the applications of the Titanic
Mild steels, manganese sulfide, wrought iron are the materials used in the application of the titanic found from the researches. (References: metallurgy of the RMS titanic Tim Foecke). The steel fracture which was taken from a hull material recovered from the wreck site of the titanic had incorporative slag (a by-product of smelting) in concentration as high as 9%. But high quality rivets only contains about 2-3 %. Slags helps by preventing the iron from starching so the iron can take up the load applied in the body. At the same time slags give the character of brittleness to the iron, therefore more slag in the iron makes the iron more the brittleness which makes the iron weaker. Irons with the incorporated slags were found in stern and bows allowed the impact with iceberg even though it’s small one ...
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Recommendation
More appropriate design can be made with the high technology and equipment we have in the modern world. The bow and stern parts of the ship equipment we have in the modern world. The bow and stern parts of the ship should be designed to handle huge amount of pressure. This will prevent from more pressure being acting on strong parts of the ship.
To make the steel stronger and reduce the ductile – brittleness transition temperature composition of the steel should Reduce the amount of sag ( a by-product of smelting) by 2-3%
Use higher manganese content and lower sulphur content to get a higher Mn: S ratio to reduce the ductile- brittle transition temperature by reasonable amount
Lower phosphorus, oxygen, and sulphur contents will also help to achieve a lower ductile- brittle transition temperature
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