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Re: [petsfed] Microfractures are a myth?:
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ride_pow
Jul 13, 2007, 7:03 AM
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No materials science degree here. I am not so sure many pure physicists focus on this kind of stuff (too applicable  ). However, there are Mechanical Engineers who specialize in fracture mechanics and this stuff is their so called steez. If I remember correctly there are some cases of whole water (or chemical) towers and cargo ships failing. Check this out this pic. It is the type of failure which got people interested in this area I believe.
http://www.nrl.navy.mil/...images/hull_ship.jpg
These topics are in fact quite interesting and very little was understood even a hundred years ago.
I am still working, after seven years and yes they are called doctors, to get my BS in physics and ME. Therefore I am by no means an expert, but I found it amusing the high school physics being thrown around a few posts above mine, which had very little to do with understanding or dispelling so called microfractures. The problem, or rather explanation as I (and obviously a few others), see it is a bit more complicated.
The armchair comment was a mild jab. I am sure my english and philosophy buff friends find my ideas on Dostoevsky and Rumi and just as entertaining. Oh and it doesn't stop there. I am sure my Materials prof. would get quite the laugh at my responses to this!
(This post was edited by ride_pow on Jul 13, 2007, 7:09 AM)
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