The toxic fuel and high temperature together make power plant safety an area of special concern in engineering design and testing as well as in commercial operation.
Of particular concern in engineering structures is the prevention of sudden, complete failure, as in the fracture of a brittle material.
Deterioration is a serious concern in engineering because it can considerably reduce the life and reliability of systems.
The in-service brittle fracture of a structural component of a nuclear power plant (NPP) is a problem of major concern in engineering.
While robustness of one attractor is the chief concern in engineering, the relevant dynamics in multicellular systems operates in the regime of frequent transitions among the attractors, corresponding to cell-type switching in development and in artificial cell reprogramming.
One central issue of concern in engineering metal/oxide interfaces is to understand and control the interactions which consist of two fundamental aspects: (i) interfacial charge redistribution — electronic interaction, and (ii) interfacial atom transport — chemical interaction.
Safety and the avoidance of risk are major concerns in practical engineering.
Maximization of process conversion of reactants to products has always been one of the main concerns in process engineering.
Stress relaxation is one of the main concerns in geotechnical engineering, especially in permafrost regions with warm frozen soil.
Assessing the mechanical properties of materials at intermediate strain rates (1 200/s) is one of the major concerns in impact engineering.
