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  • A cargo ship passing the Golden Gate Bridge, near San Francisco.
    naval architecture
    / Materials of construction

    …use of steel lacking in notch toughness. This term refers to the steel’s ability to absorb energy by stretching in the vicinity of sharp corners, notches, and cracks, particularly at low temperatures or at high stretching rates. This quality is particularly important where all the plating seams around the girth…

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    …use of steel lacking in notch toughness. This term refers to the steel’s ability to absorb energy by stretching in the vicinity of sharp corners, notches, and cracks, particularly at low temperatures or at high stretching rates. This quality is particularly important where all the plating seams around the girth…

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