Sentence examples for cascade of failures from inspiring English sources

From that initial problem, a cascade of failures followed.

BP's own report on the disaster blamed a cascade of failures by multiple companies.

Because aluminum melts at 1,200 degrees, such heat would set off a cascade of failures, ending in disaster.

Buldyrev, S. V., Parshani, R., Paul, G., Stanley, H. E. & Havlin, S. Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks.

Investigators found that the resulting short circuits began a cascade of failures and miscalculations that resulted in the rig's sinking.

Some experts have pointed to failures in high-voltage transmission lines controlled by FirstEnergy Corporation, in Ohio, as the first of a cascade of failures in the catastrophe.

With no veteran leader in either the rotation or bullpen, rattled nerves led to a cascade of failure.

It should be pointed out that while sarcopenia was not immediately responsible for the crises experienced by those subjects facing serious disease, quality of life, or even mortality, their weakened conditions associated with lean body mass undoubtedly initiated the cascade of failure leading to a negative outcome.

They conduct something akin to stress tests, simulating cascades of failures under various scenarios that very roughly approximate conditions in 2008.

Elliott et al. (2014 studied cascades of failures in a network of financial institutions based on network topologies.

In particular, fault detection, fault classification and fault area estimation are essential to reduce the damage of faults, and even prevent catastrophic cascades of failures.