/sci/ - Science & Math

Tory Bruno:
>Coming along great. Booster and pad are done and certified. Centaur V's new reinforced forward dome has been welded on to CV and will in the wash station shortly in prep for SOFI. This is what the inside looked like before it was welded onto the barrel.
Twitter Rando:
>it's gorgeous! Are the hatch patterns a forming artifact or for stiffening?
Tory Bruno:
>No. Those are Lüders bands. They look like scratches, but are really just a reflectivity effect. Gores are stretched to the dome shape. This phenomenon occurs at the tensile yield point when crystalline slip bands form alternating regions of plastic and elastic deformation.