I don't really understand how the joints between the titanium bits and the carbon fibre bit worked. There were titanium rings there, between each join, and the three sections were glued to those rings.
But, aside from comments I've seen arguing those rings were too narrow, with too small an area of contact between each part, and claims that it was sloppy to glue those bits together in a non-clean-room environment, surely the titanium bits and the CF bit would behave differently in response to pressure changes (and to temperature changes)? One material would surely compress more or less than the other? (I don't know which way round it is, i.e. what the numerical values are wrt to the behaviour of CF vs Titanium, but they aren't going to be exactly the same)
So how can those joining rings be expected to hold? Wouldn't the different parts be in effect pulling away from each other as a concequence of their different reactions to pressure increasing and temperature decreasing?