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Failure Analysis of the Arecibo Observatory 305-Meter Telescope Collapse (nationalacademies.org)
2 points by croes 21 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> The long-term zinc creep failure of the Arecibo Telescope sockets and the subsequent cable pullout has never been documented elsewhere despite a century of zinc-filled cable spelter sockets use.

Interesting read. All that research and they still don’t know specifically what caused the failure.




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