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i wake up and the forum has gone through puberty already
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The Alexander L. Kielland was a Norwegian semi-submersible drilling rig that capsized whilst working in the Ekofisk oil field in March 1980 killing 123 people. The capsizing was the worst disaster in Norwegian waters since World War II. The rig, located approximately 320 km east from Dundee, Scotland, was owned by the Stavanger Drilling Company of Norway and was on hire to the U.S. company Phillips Petroleum at the time of the disaster. In driving rain and mist, early in the evening of 27 March 1980 more than 200 men were off duty in the accommodation on the Alexander L. Kielland. The wind was gusting to 40 knots with waves up to 12 m high. The rig had just been winched away from the Edda production platform. Minutes before 18:30 those on board felt a 'sharp crack' followed by 'some kind of trembling'. Suddenly the rig heeled over 30° and then stabilised. Five of the six anchor cables had broken, with one remaining cable preventing the rig from capsizing. The list continued to increase and at 18.53 the remaining anchor cable snapped and the rig turned upside down.
A year later in March 1981, the investigative report[25] concluded that the rig collapsed owing to a fatigue crack in one of its six bracings (bracing D-6), which connected the collapsed D-leg to the rest of the rig. This was traced to a small 6 mm fillet weld which joined a non-load-bearing flange plate to this D-6 bracing. This flange plate held a sonar device used during drilling operations. The poor profile of the fillet weld contributed to a reduction in its fatigue strength. Further, the investigation found considerable amounts of lamellar tearing in the flange plate and cold cracks in the butt weld. Cold cracks in the welds, increased stress concentrations due to the weakened flange plate, the poor weld profile, and cyclical stresses (which would be common in the North Sea), seemed to collectively play a role in the rig's collapse.
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this thread dont even have as many views as old ITT has posts yet
We're lacking the abundance of lurkers the Osu forum had, that's why.
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I just made a decision to not smoke dank for a week now!
this isn't happening you weedmeister
edit: 69 get
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Plakkis wrote:I just made a decision to not smoke dank for a week now!
this isn't happening you weedmeister
edit: 69 get
I'm pretty sure it's happening. Mostly for lowering tolerances though
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I'm pretty sure it's happening. Mostly for lowering tolerances though
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yo granger where u at lets meet up
Are you back in Germany for some time? Im around Frankfurt (Main).
Life is like a box of chocolates.
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fuck i missed branflakes when he was here a few hours ago
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Are you back in Germany for some time? Im around Frankfurt (Main).
I went to the Frankfurter Buchmesse a week ago, although i could come and visit you for no reason :^)
It's only 1-2 hours with the train so ye, wanna meet up sexy boi? ;)
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fuck i missed branflakes when he was here a few hours ago
also obligatory 42(0) page
Granger wrote:Are you back in Germany for some time? Im around Frankfurt (Main).
I went to the Frankfurter Buchmesse a week ago, although i could come and visit you for no reason :^)
It's only 1-2 hours with the train so ye, wanna meet up sexy boi? ;)
Ah, damnit i forgot about the Buchmesse...
Why not i guess, maybe we can meet at some event sometime ;V
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