Titan submersible’s carbon fiber design came with risks
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Carbon-fiber composite structure is tricky to analyze (“Oceangate Sub’s design may have destined it for disaster,” The Herald, June 23). Carbon fibers are 10-times stronger than aluminum alloy, but the glue, or epoxy, that holds them together is 10-times weaker.
Titan submersible’s carbon fiber design came with risks
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