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In 1997, impact tests conducted at the University of Missouri-Rolla that were performed on pieces of steel retrieved from the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic revealed that, when tested at the estimated temperature of the water when the ship struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, the hull's steel plates were nearly 10 times more brittle than modern steel.

George Heymont: Second Chances, Unexpected Outcomes George Heymont 2011

In 1997, impact tests conducted at the University of Missouri-Rolla that were performed on pieces of steel retrieved from the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic revealed that, when tested at the estimated temperature of the water when the ship struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912, the hull's steel plates were nearly 10 times more brittle than modern steel.

George Heymont: Second Chances, Unexpected Outcomes George Heymont 2011

Because a side-launch is particular to this place and repeats so many that came before it, the echo of the hull's first contact with the water will pull the past through the present and the present into the past.

Launch Day stephen hastings-king 2011

In Straylight, the hull's inner surface is overgrown with a desperate proliferation of structures, forms flowing, interlocking, rising toward a solid core of microcircuitry, our clan's corporate heart, a cylinder of silicon wormholed with narrow maintenance tunnels, some no wider than a man's hand.

Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

Hull planks have been bent inward here, bulging almost a foot from the graceful curve elsewhere along the hull's side.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

One nice thing about cruising in a thirty-ton vehicle spawned from military technology was its rhino hull's resistance to bullets.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

Even as the hull's external temperature began to rise sharply, the ship's dispersion field proceeded to com-pensate by dissipating the intense heat.

The Chronicles of Riddick Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2004

Finally, the hull's going to crack open, the pieces are going to break loose.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: Mir Falls to Earth - March 23, 2001 2001

The ship rocked again as a fighter slipped through the phaser barrage and fired into the primary hull's underbelly.

Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000

The ship rocked again as a fighter slipped through the phaser barrage and fired into the primary hull's underbelly.

Dreams of the Raven Carmen Carter 2000