The phrase "built to crash" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe something that was created or designed to fail. For example, "The company's business model was built to crash within a few months."
Prosecutor Robin said an access road was being built to the crash site in the remote mountains in the south of France.
The trade center was built to withstand a crash by a slow-flying Boeing 707, the heaviest airplane of its time, but the jets that brought the towers down on Sept. 11 weighed far more and were flying at full speed.
A slow-motion guitar line eventually builds to a crashing, trudging climax.
The car is also built to withstand big crashes, and Tesla said that the car is expected to be the first ever of its kind to get a perfect five stars in all of its crash tests.
We are combing the site and we will find the flight data recorder, which is built to resist a severe crash.
The car's body design and specialized crash structure (built to maintain safety at ultra high speeds) are derived directly from race car aerodynamics.
Computer simulations are powerful tools frequently used today in many important applications, for example to build safer buildings, to crash-test an automobile before it is built, to stabilize the Pisa tower, to design artificial joints that are comfortable and durable, or to investigate what-if scenarios to avoid and best recover from natural or man-made disasters.
To be sure, Mr. Marchal is leaving out the plane crash, though he has built a locomotive to crash through his house instead.
You'll notice a stark lack of test code; I still need to track down an iOS heisenbug; I should be using git submodules rather than copy-pasted files for the third-party libraries; etc. (eta: ugh, and a rogue layout file slipped into the Android build which caused it to crash on tablets. Now fixed).
