Cheer up TRBill

[Tinster]

Cheer up Bill !!

Here's a metal failure I spotted in Curacao 3 weeks ago.
I cannot even begin to imagine what forces were required
to shear this tremendous block of pier steel. It must have
made quite a loud sound.

Anyone have a clue what might have caused this?

 

[TR4]

WOW, not sure what caused that. I don't recall any sightings of Godzilla in the area.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

A disturbance in The Force?

Global Warming?

 

[TR6oldtimer]

Bertha Butt?

 

[Mickey Richaud]

/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif

 

[Brosky]

A new breed of alien metal termites?

 

[John_Mc]

"There is no spoon."

 

[kodanja]

hmmm is that a melted down LBC?

 

[Guest]

Barack Obama?

 

[DNK]

Careful Bill, Don't want the boss storming in here.

 

[kodanja]

NOT MY BOSS!

 

[2wrench]

Worn tappets.

 

[Guest]

Worn tappets.

Wash your mouth out!

 

[aeronca65t]

I say it's a model made from styrofoam and he's just trying to impress us! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

 

[DNK]

He's trying to 1 up Dr. John

 

[Tinster]

He's trying to 1 up Dr. John

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Please explain?

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[angelfj1]

Dale: That looks like it has seen some serious heat. It reminds me of the slag that they pull out of electric arc furnaces. I would think that failure from metal fatigue (like cyclical loading) would look very porous or crystalline at the edges.

 

[NickMorgan]

Was there a TR6 attached to another length of chain nearby?

 

[Mickey Richaud]

Dale: That looks like it has seen some serious heat.

TOLD ya it was global warming! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif

 

[DrEntropy]

That had to have seen some serious temperature along with shear force. Somewhere around 1600*~1800*F I'd think.