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Comment on Innovation or Overreach? UH Research Casts blame on OceanGate's Submersible Design says: Low quality carbon fibre lead to the accident

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SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s also not great when the pressure is on the outside of the vessel. It’s good at containing pressure because that leads to tension on the carbon fibers which is when they’re their strongest. But when the pressures on the outside of the vessel they’re more of less useless.

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reddithalation@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Your point makes sense, but an epoxy submersible definitely wouldn’t make it down to the titanic intact even once, and there are some ways fibers could be put in tension by compressing the cylinder, so its just complicated. They shouldve just build a normal submersible though.

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Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, at the point where you’re resisting outside pressure your hull is basically just the plastic resin that the fibres are sealed in. Without that, the fibres are just a fabric bag.

Imagine if they’d said “We’re diving down to the Titanic in a submersible with a plastic resin hull.” Doesn’t sound so great.

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