THE ROYAL MAIL SHIP TITANIC - DID A METALLURGICAL FAILURE CAUSE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

Authors
FELKINS K LEIGHLY HP JANKOVIC A
Citation
K. Felkins et al., THE ROYAL MAIL SHIP TITANIC - DID A METALLURGICAL FAILURE CAUSE A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, JOM, 50(1), 1998, pp. 12-18
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Metallurgy & Metallurigical Engineering","Material Science
Journal title
JOM → ACNP
ISSN journal
10474838
Volume
50
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
12 - 18
Database
ISI
SICI code
1047-4838(1998)50:1<12:TRMST->2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
A metallurgical analysis of steel taken from the hull of the Titanic's wreckage reveals that it had a high ductile-brittle transition temper ature making it unsuitable for service at low temperatures; at the tim e of the collision, the temperature of the sea water was -2 degrees C. The analysis also shows, however, that the steel used was probably th e best plain carbon ship plate available at the time of the ship's con struction.