Run! The molasses is coming!
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revchrisMy boss and I were meeting with one of the undergrads this morning to discuss an outreach event the undergrad was going to be doing on Monday. We were talking about what experiments could be done, but since Rachel (the undergrad) only has 5 minutes per group, we decided to do Charpy testing, since it's fast, easy, and the get to see something break.
We were talking about what other material you could put up, and I mentioned Liberty Ships and the Titanic. The breakup of 30% of the liberty ships is what lead to the study of the Ductile to Brittle transition temperatures in steels, something that has been suggested as part of the problem in the sinking of the Titanic.
My boss then mentioned the Boston Molasses Flood. Rachel and I both responded with "the what?" and she proceeded to find an on line link for it after we couldn't find a textbook example. I just discovered there's even a book on it, which I just requested from the library.
Edit: YouTube has a report on it too.
We were talking about what other material you could put up, and I mentioned Liberty Ships and the Titanic. The breakup of 30% of the liberty ships is what lead to the study of the Ductile to Brittle transition temperatures in steels, something that has been suggested as part of the problem in the sinking of the Titanic.
My boss then mentioned the Boston Molasses Flood. Rachel and I both responded with "the what?" and she proceeded to find an on line link for it after we couldn't find a textbook example. I just discovered there's even a book on it, which I just requested from the library.
Edit: YouTube has a report on it too.
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Date: 2006-11-29 05:26 am (UTC)