'less prone to failure' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that is expected to have fewer problems or mistakes than something else, or to describe why something may be a better choice than something else. For example: "The new airplane model is less prone to failure, making it a better choice for long-distance flights."
The IUDs with the highest copper concentrations are clearly less prone to failure than those with lower copper concentrations.
Shareholders may welcome a stronger capital base because it makes the bank less prone to failure and better able to absorb losses if there is a crisis.
A large bank with many loans is less prone to failure than, say, a bank in Texas that lends to only oil drillers.
Our simulation results show that the RobP2P is efficient, less prone to failure, and generates lower overhead traffic, while reliably maintaining the consistency of network state.
The changes have simplified the design, making it easier to build and less prone to failure; improved its safety by reducing the number of connections where hot steam might leak out; and increased the number of components available in Nicaragua.
But because those firms have "no incentive to reduce the chances of such systemic losses," higher capital requirements are necessary "to make those large, interconnected firms less prone to failure".
These advantages are mainly due to the capability of a WMN to create optimal forwarding paths, which introduce enough redundancy in the system to make it less prone to failures.
A tweak was made for Germany - where Vettel won again, brilliantly sustaining heavy pressure from the Lotuses - and then for Hungary Pirelli reverted to its 2012 design, which was less prone to failures.
And landfill operators say its one-step storage and application process makes it easier to use and less prone to equipment failure.
But whichever way the rating was adjusted after getting more accurate measurements, he said, the system should be less prone to line failure and blackout.
Odds ratios observed for the models based on aggregated data sets (3 forest classes) indicated provided evidence that forest was constantly estimated to be less prone to slope failure than their non-forested counterparts.
