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Those delaminations deteriorated between dive 80 and dive 88, its final dive, resulting in a local buckling failure that led to the implosion.
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Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
The investigation found that the bang was a result of delamination between the layers of the material that made up the pressure hull.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Carbon fiber has not been used on this type of deep-diving sub before and is considered to be unreliable under pressure due to delamination.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025
It has since been determined this was likely delamination of the carbon fiber (separation of its layers), which significantly weakened the hull.
—Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 11 June 2025
During inspections, teams conduct visual and hands-on searches for delamination, voids or weakened areas, according to the department.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 24 Feb. 2025
One of the key steps of the process comes right before the delamination when lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2) is exposed to high-temperature annealing to create the crystallinity of material that results in the high-performance solid-state LIB.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Aug. 2012
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Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025
The investigation found that the bang was a result of delamination between the layers of the material that made up the pressure hull.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Carbon fiber has not been used on this type of deep-diving sub before and is considered to be unreliable under pressure due to delamination.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2025
It has since been determined this was likely delamination of the carbon fiber (separation of its layers), which significantly weakened the hull.
—Alexandra Gillespie, Outside Online, 11 June 2025
During inspections, teams conduct visual and hands-on searches for delamination, voids or weakened areas, according to the department.
—Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 24 Feb. 2025
One of the key steps of the process comes right before the delamination when lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2) is exposed to high-temperature annealing to create the crystallinity of material that results in the high-performance solid-state LIB.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Aug. 2012
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delamination
noun
de·lam·i·na·tion
(ˌ)dē-ˌlam-ə-ˈnā-shən 
1
: separation into constituent layers
2
: gastrulation in which the endoderm is split off as a layer from the inner surface of the blastoderm and the archenteron is represented by the space between this endoderm and the yolk mass
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