Failure Analysis and Casting a Gooseneck for Mashnee
The gooseneck of MIT Sailing’s classic Herreshoff sailboat Mashnee recently failed. A failure analysis was conducted, and the failure mode identified. Steps were taken to mitigate this failure in a redesign of the gooseneck geometry, and the subsequent patternmaking, sandcasting, and finish machine...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2022
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144636 |
| Summary: | The gooseneck of MIT Sailing’s classic Herreshoff sailboat Mashnee recently failed. A failure analysis was conducted, and the failure mode identified. Steps were taken to mitigate this failure in a redesign of the gooseneck geometry, and the subsequent patternmaking, sandcasting, and finish machine was completed. |
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