For those curious, the failure mode of the windlass is likely due to the phenomena of stress concentration. In short, in any load-bearing mechanical design of a single piece (say, a plate of metal) that has a sharp interior angle in it is likely to be weakest starting at that corner. In some ways, you can consider the corner to be the beginnings of a crack.
That’s why on many designs for parts, windows, and openings in solid pieces there is filleting or other design changes done to help spread the stress. Failure to do this can lead to catastrophic failure (notably, the de Havilland Comet) .
The CAT is targeted at frontline military personnel who are usually men with larger limbs. The Gaza population is mostly children, with 44.78% under the age of 14[6]. CATs do not work on a pediatric population, which would have automatically excluded most of the patient population we expect.
O_o I keep hearing about how the war age will end or how we have less war today compared to ancient empires. It’s hard to grasp how far we’ve come when we’re still so far away from that Gene Roddenberry world.
For those curious, the failure mode of the windlass is likely due to the phenomena of stress concentration. In short, in any load-bearing mechanical design of a single piece (say, a plate of metal) that has a sharp interior angle in it is likely to be weakest starting at that corner. In some ways, you can consider the corner to be the beginnings of a crack.
That’s why on many designs for parts, windows, and openings in solid pieces there is filleting or other design changes done to help spread the stress. Failure to do this can lead to catastrophic failure (notably, the de Havilland Comet) .
O_o I keep hearing about how the war age will end or how we have less war today compared to ancient empires. It’s hard to grasp how far we’ve come when we’re still so far away from that Gene Roddenberry world.