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$MIT researchers found a near-perfect match between their pipeline fracture simulation (bottom) and an image of the Deepwater Horizon's ruptured pipeline taken by an underwater robot.$

Forecasting pipe fractures

MIT simulation accurately reconstructs pipe fractures formed in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident.

August 15, 2011

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Forecasting pipe fractures