Lets face it: Can a big chunk of Ice sink a 46,328 ton ship? NO!
The theory goes:
THis is just simply impossible!
The samples of steel rescued from the wrecked hull were found to have very high content of phosphorus and sulphur (four times and two times as high as common for modern steels), with a manganese-sulphur ratio of 6.8:1 (compare with over 200:1 ratio for modern steels). High content of phosphorus initiates fractures, sulphur forms grains of iron sulphide that facilitate propagation of cracks, and lack of manganese makes the steel less ductile. The recovered samples were found to be undergoing ductile-brittle transition in temperatures of 32 °C (for longitudinal samples) and 56 °C (for transversal samplescompare with transition temperature of ?27 °C common for modern steelsmodern steel would become as brittle between ?60 and ?70 °C). The anisotropy was likely caused by hot rolling influencing the orientation of the sulphide stringer inclusions. The steel was probably produced in the acid-lined, open-hearth furnaces in Glasgow, which would explain the high content of phosphorus and sulphur, even for the times.
WHere was the Titanic sunk?
It is very likely that a torpedo from a German U-boat sunk the ship.
After the Titanic had collided with the "iceberg," while people were up on the boat deck, they said several people recall hearing explosions "from below the ship." Some say these were the boilers, but the U-boat came into play when they said some of the passengers recollect actually seeing what may have looked like another vessel (submarine) submerged below the water next to the Titanic.
The theory goes:
THis is just simply impossible!
The samples of steel rescued from the wrecked hull were found to have very high content of phosphorus and sulphur (four times and two times as high as common for modern steels), with a manganese-sulphur ratio of 6.8:1 (compare with over 200:1 ratio for modern steels). High content of phosphorus initiates fractures, sulphur forms grains of iron sulphide that facilitate propagation of cracks, and lack of manganese makes the steel less ductile. The recovered samples were found to be undergoing ductile-brittle transition in temperatures of 32 °C (for longitudinal samples) and 56 °C (for transversal samplescompare with transition temperature of ?27 °C common for modern steelsmodern steel would become as brittle between ?60 and ?70 °C). The anisotropy was likely caused by hot rolling influencing the orientation of the sulphide stringer inclusions. The steel was probably produced in the acid-lined, open-hearth furnaces in Glasgow, which would explain the high content of phosphorus and sulphur, even for the times.
WHere was the Titanic sunk?
It is very likely that a torpedo from a German U-boat sunk the ship.
After the Titanic had collided with the "iceberg," while people were up on the boat deck, they said several people recall hearing explosions "from below the ship." Some say these were the boilers, but the U-boat came into play when they said some of the passengers recollect actually seeing what may have looked like another vessel (submarine) submerged below the water next to the Titanic.
