Fatigue is one of the main factors which can produce cracks, and lead to failure of ships.
Samsung's acknowledgement of its failure to ship Bixby at press time was less an admission of failure than it was an opportunity for the company to talk up the pieces that are shipping with the phone.
Motorola 's failure to ship part of its new cell-phone lineup in time to capture Christmas sales could cost the handset maker $234 million to $260 million in sales in the all-important fourth quarter.
For most of the migrants, the failure of the ship to mount any rescue attempt proved fatal.
Schettino's attorneys also pinned blame on the vessel's helmsman – they claimed he misunderstood the captain's orders – and the failure of the ship's emergency generators, which prevented the watertight doors from sealing properly.
This paper deals with the numerical simulation of the dynamic failure of a ship structure steel plate under near-field air-blast loading.
In addition, to possible failure to local structure, such impacts can generate slam-induced whipping loads, the magnitude of which when combined with ordinary wave induced loads, could lead to first passage failure of a ship's hull girder.
Raking both opponents, Defence soon found herself in difficulty due to the failure of those ships behind her to properly follow up.
Historian Thomas Stuart Willan has observed that "What may seem to require explanation is not the comparative failure of the Ship Canal but the unquenchable vitality of the myth of its success".
The Whiddy Island disaster, also known as the Betelgeuse incident, occurred on 8 January 1979, at around 1 00 a.m., when the oil tanker Betelgeuse exploded in West Cork, Ireland, at the offshore jetty of the Whiddy Island Oil Terminal, due to the failure of the ship's structure during an operation to discharge its cargo of oil.
Credit card chargebacks soared as buyers disputed transactions that went bad for a host of reasons, such as failure to ship or items showing up not as described.
