Sentence examples for disaster engineering from inspiring English sources
In the aftermath of the WTC disaster, engineering controls clearly were not feasible.
Such assessment involves many factors, including socioeconomic factors, disaster prevention engineering facilities, and non-engineering measures.
Approaches to environmental hazards developed from an initial focus on preventing natural disasters through engineering works, to an emphasis on how human behavior and perceptions influence response and adjustment to hazards, and then to analyses of how political and economic processes and structures make some people and places more vulnerable to extreme events than others.
The Mosul Dam is an engineering disaster waiting to happen.
It was a man-made disaster, a federal engineering failure with multibillion-dollar consequences.
The Mosul Dam, the largest in Iraq, is an engineering disaster waiting to happen.
At best, this creates ambiguity and inconvenience; at worst, the potential for an engineering disaster.
Britain's existing fleet of Advanced Gas-cooled Reactors was described by the then Chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board as the worst civil engineering disaster in our history.
The first is that the European pressurised water reactor (EPR) planned for Hinkley has turned out to be an engineering disaster.
BP is still mopping up after the catastrophe on its Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico as much a managerial as an engineering disaster.
Understanding the deformation mechanism of shear band for granular materials can predict granular structure failure and prevent natural disaster in the engineering fields.
