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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brandyberry, Everett
Other Authors: Braunstein, Daniel
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144636

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