The Rivets: The rivets on titanic were unqualified. The Titanic had 3000 layer seamless steel plates, this proved that the steel plates were very firm, but the biggest problem was that the material of the rivets. The titanic used the wrought iron rivets rather than steel rivets. Even it is not strong as the steel rivets, the shipbuilding workers add cinder to wrought iron. This made the rivets become very fragile and easy to break. Imaging such a situation, a ship traveling at nearly 25mph and it contact an iceberg. In that case, the whole ship will be affected great momentum. The rivets at impact part were sheared off. The iceberg collides with a huge hole, the impact part of the rivets must have been affected. But after the water enters
