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Old 5th Feb 2012, 20:33
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Purely for the benefit of those who, like me, didn't actually know what "delaminating" looked like.
Doesn't look like the kind of thing you want to be happening in midair at any rate. From a naive perspective, is it not of some concern to see highlighted the obvious stress the fuselage is under already? Obviously it's all engineered to withstand it, just seems like it's a bit too reliant on everything being just so..
To me, that looks more like compression and/or buckling failure due to significant overstress, not simple delamination. While strength of a delaminated material will be reduced, it is not a foregone conclusion that such a failure will result from simple delamination, especially if the part is in tension, not compression.
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