Sentence examples for catastrophic design from inspiring English sources

The inquiry report by Charles Haddon-Cavexposedposed catastrophic design faults in the Nimrod MR2 which were not put right as a result of cost-cutting and "complacency".

The crash of a Singapore Airlines jet in October, where the pilot mistakenly turned onto a closed runway at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan and slammed into construction equipment on takeoff can also be seen both as a pilot error and a catastrophic design lapse.

We use formal verification techniques to ensure there are no potentially catastrophic design flaws remaining in the AAC design before the next stage of production.

These technologies aim to eliminate or minimize the potential for catastrophic events by designing hazards out of process systems (Kletz 1996).

Yet short of a catastrophic failure in the design of one of America's remaining weapons, politically it would probably be impossible to start weapons-testing again though no serving administration official would be caught admitting that.The irony is that, despite all that tinkering, Mr Bush may in practice end up looking like something of a model citizen.

A detailed analysis of the damage caused by a catastrophic event could help design the size, shape, and placement of individual structures in the base to minimize detrimental effects.

The consequences of inappropriate analyses can range from embarrassment and loss of funding through catastrophic failure of poorly designed structures under service loads, with the liabilities and litigations that inevitably follow.

The committee leaders cited five areas in which the company had made decisions that "increased the danger of a catastrophic well," including choosing the design of the well, preparing for and testing the cement job and assuring that the well was properly sealed on the top.

This finding can be exploited to design a successful catastrophic risk management program by initiating protection at 9 to 12 mo before futures contract maturity.

The motivation for this work is borne out of experience working on embedded systems in the context of critical systems where the cost of change can be large and the impact of design errors potentially catastrophic.

Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS), a 13-item self-report measure designed to assess catastrophic thoughts or feelings accompanying the experience of pain.