Sentence examples for a structural failure from inspiring English sources

A structural failure of these structures may result in a very great economic loss.

At the beginning of a structural design, when the structure's main features are determined, one should do a structural failure analysis.

The collapse was caused by a construction accident, not a structural failure of the building, he said.

Fearing the worst, I held my breath while I waited for alarm bells to signal a structural failure.

"We are still analysing the results of the extended test, including a structural failure we experienced just before landing.

While many failures of recent times have been, at least in part, driven by the economy, HMV's reported demise is a structural failure.

A1 denotes the zone for which the random variables values always lead to a safe structure, structural failure does not occur during the entire service life and the structure is not repaired.

"If the tail came off and people are thinking the plane is dumping fuel, then the plane had a catastrophic structural failure," said an A-300 pilot for a different airline, who is a safety official at a pilots' union.

The culprit could be anything from sabotage to an inflight fire to a catastrophic structural failure of some kind -- or, as is so common in airline catastrophes, some combination or compounding of human error and/or mechanical malfunction.

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One or several cracks may initiate and propagate through the structure, leading to an eventual structural failure of the component, or to a loss of serviceability.