Which risk increases when Roman catapults experienced prolonged firing?

💡 Explanation

Elastic ropes experienced increased fatigue because cyclical loading caused the intermolecular bonds to weaken via hysteretic heating, therefore rope elasticity degraded rapidly rather than strengthening materials via work hardening.

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