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It's very common for extremely hot metal pressure tanks to rupture when plunged into water.

• gtirloni 1y ago
  I understand but I'm asking more from a process perspective. If these are planned.
  • baq 1y ago
    In complex systems testing by perturbing the environment is the easiest, simplest and uncovers most relevant issues with design. They knew something would fail, but not necessarily what exactly or in which sequence. They can now reject or accept their hypotheses and improve their models.
    • m4rtink 1y ago
      Testing to destruction is used quite often to discover the final limits of materials and machines.