Tracking the Cracks

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday February 5, 2006 @08:22AM from the broken-news dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Israeli physicists from the Weizmann Institute have used a new approach to study how materials break. In a short news release, brilliantly titled "Breaking news", they explain their new method for analyzing the progression of a forming crack. The news release even says that it could have help engineers predict 'exactly how much pressure the levees protecting New Orleans could withstand before giving way.' This method could be used by engineers and material scientists in a vast variety of applications."

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Plumbers by Mozk · 2006-02-05 08:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Plumbers should especially pay attention.

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"Blessed are the cracked, by chris_eineke · 2006-02-05 09:06 · Score: 3, Funny

... for they let in the light." - Spike Milligan

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Re:The trick is... by b100dian · 2006-02-05 09:50 · Score: 3, Funny

double? I think an order of magnitude is a better assumption - i.e. add a zero
But I thought adding a zero would just double...

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