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5April 2021

3D Printing for Engineers: An Introduction

By |April 5th, 2021|Categories: Tuesday Tidbits|3 Comments

3D Printing is a field of rapidly growing significance that offers advantages attractive to the Engineering profession. The global 3D Printing market size was estimated to be worth $11.58 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $35.38 billion by 2027 ...

25March 2021

The DuPont Buffalo Plant Explosion

By |March 25th, 2021|Categories: Friday Famous Failures|7 Comments

It should have been a day of routine maintenance on November 9, 2010 at the DuPont plant in North Tonawanda, New York. Tank 1, which normally contained 10,000-gallons of polyvinyl fluoride (PVF), a slurry used in manufactured countertops, had been cleaned and inspected in preparation for repairs ...