Which mechanical vulnerability resulted in silk textile failures within medieval siege warfare catapult projectiles?

💡 Explanation

Catapult projectiles required structural integrity; therefore, sericin, normally binding silk filaments, could degrade due to environmental conditions making the silks brittle through induced embrittlement, because the sericin's degradation undermined material cohesion, rather than mass change inducing drift or trajectory disruption.

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