Sentence examples for an engineering failure from inspiring English sources

This study resulted from an engineering failure investigation related to diesel engine piston failures which occurred during a bench dynamometer engine durability test programme.

"They say it was an engineering failure.

Or an engineering failure — the curve and tunnel were new, part of an unfinished construction project.

"There have been incidents like this from time to time over the years and it's usually just an engineering failure.

Meanwhile, Marc Ambinder writes that an "engineering failure" took fifty nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles, "one-ninth of the U.S. missile stockpile, temporarily offline on Saturday".

This experience is fairly consistent over in North Korea – a great deal of posturing followed by an engineering failure.

A serious engineering failure led to a permanent evacuation of tenants only five years later.

Attributing the accident to a "serious engineering failure," they said victims might still be trapped in the rubble.

"We are talking about a major disaster," said Miki Levi, the police chief of Jerusalem, attributing the collapse to a "serious engineering failure".

The flooding of metro New Orleans was a civil engineering failure, the worst in the world since Chernobyl according to Dr. Ray Seed, levee expert and geotechnical specialist at the University of California Berkeley.

The fact that the wreckage of Katrina was largely a product of engineering failure is important to recognise, particularly as these problems have not been solved.