Sentence examples for a mechanical defect from inspiring English sources

"It's possible it may have been a mechanical defect in the vehicle," one police official, Inspector Joseph McKeever, said.

The police were trying to determine whether a mechanical defect or driver error had caused the accident.

A mechanical defect was done on the coating, in order to evaluate the self-healing effect.

The prognosis is better for patients with ventricular septal defect, although selected patients without a mechanical defect of the myocardium can be salvaged if the response to IABCP is favorable.

Lixin Sun a 5th-year PhD student in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering won the Silver Award for her presentation entitled "How does a mechanical defect impact electrochemical properties in oxides?".

He said: "Vengeance has suffered a mechanical defect resulting in a reduction in propulsion.

Mr Trotter said early investigations showed "no reason to believe there was any defect with the crossing", and added: "We will examine the motor vehicle to see if there is any mechanical defect, and obviously we will take into consideration the evidence of the police officer seeing a motor vehicle on the crossing and making no attempt to leave".

They have an inherent mechanical defect, in that they act simply as guy ropes from the leg bones, and they do not prevent motion in the subastragaloid and medio-tarsal joints.

A downdraft, a sudden squall, or some never-explained mechanical defect made the plane "nose down". Billingsley pitched forward, completely losing control and the plane capsized.

Furthermore, cardiomyocytes beat at a high frequency in vivo as opposed to the non-physiological slow pace (0.5 Hz) used in our study despite the fact that a low frequency contraction is deemed as a "slow motion" to maximally reveal the cell mechanical defect.

The roadside survey (potential mechanical defect tests (PMDT)) indicated that 40% of the vehicles surveyed on the suburban road and 29% of the vehicles surveyed on the highway had mechanical defects that contravened current road and traffic regulations in South Africa and may, therefore, be at risk of causing an accident due to a mechanical failure.