Question

(ii) What tragedy befell the Titanic ?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

The "unsinkable" Titanic was sunk by an iceberg, but there are other reasons why the tragedy that occurred 100 years ago this month was as tragic as it was. Even a century later, the case of the Titanic illustrates how technological failures often result from a succession of omissions, missteps and bad luck rather than one big mess-up.

Answer 2

The Titanic scraped along the side of the iceberg, and the rivets holding the sides together sheared off. The force from the collision with the iceberg also caused rivets to simply pop off. Like the steel of the hull, they too failed in a brittle mode for the same ductile-to-brittle transition temperature reason.