Sentence examples for engineering failures in from inspiring English sources
St. Francis Dam disaster, catastrophic dam failure in California on March 12 , 1928 that was one of the worst civil engineering failures in American history.
It is equally true, however, that many engineering failures occur in commonplace components and structures, often as a result of poor technology transfer, inadequate staff training and unfounded assumptions regarding materials, operation, load conditions, and maintenance.
Design errors contribute significantly to cost and schedule growth in social infrastructure projects and to engineering failures, which can result in accidents and loss of life.
Prodded by families who lost relatives in the World Trade Center attacks, the hearings he held explored whether engineering failures led to the collapse of the towers.
Engineering failures are often due to human fallibility.
The flooding of metro New Orleans was a civil engineering failure, the worst in the world since Chernobyl according to Dr. Ray Seed, levee expert and geotechnical specialist at the University of California Berkeley.
Two practical applications of the multi-camera DIC system are described in order to show its feasibility in engineering failure analysis.
An important role of microfractography is stressed in engineering failure analysis for hot forging die failures.
In a very interesting study by Bhola et al. (2014) published in Engineering Failure Analysis, authors investigated the inhibition effect of AZI extract on microbiologically influenced corrosion of API 5L X80 line pipe steel by a sulfate reducing bacterial (SRB) consortium.
The principal goal is to validate two analytical methods for the consideration of constraint effects in engineering failure assessment – the R6/FITNET approach and the IST methodology.
Attributing the accident to a "serious engineering failure," they said victims might still be trapped in the rubble.
