The models were developed using empirical data on debris height and degree of loss of buildings following a debris flow event in the Martell valley in South Tyrol, in August 1987.
Before the crash, NASA had data about debris striking tile, but little about impacts on reinforced carbon-carbon, the material from which the edge is made.
Instead of doing that, the system froze because it was inundated with data from debris created by the collision, a Pentagon official said.
In the absence of finer data, floating debris from the plane remains critical to solving the puzzle of its disappearance.
While magnitude frequency (M F) relations have long formed the basis for risk assessment and engineering design in hydrology and fluvial hydraulics, only fragmentary and insufficiently specified data for debris flows exists.
The study illustrates that detailed damage surveys, which incorporate the use of wind tunnel test data and debris flight in the analysis, can shed considerable light on the details of the wind speeds at failure, reducing the uncertainty caused by the many assumptions in such analyses.
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NASA has no experience in general getting data from shuttle debris.
He says the data suggests floating debris could have been carried 100km away from its original site by now, even in normal weather.
They spoke to the news media after analyzing the rocket's flight data and the debris of its oxidizer tank, which was recovered in waters off South Korea two days after the rocket launching.
