Back to results
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Failure Analysis and Casting a Gooseneck for Mashnee
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe 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.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Bachelor
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2022
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
-
- Brandyberry, Everett
- Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
-
- Braunstein, Daniel
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
-
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Copyright MIT
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144636
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/144636