But the Fukushima meltdowns, the world's worst nuclear accident in twenty-five years, were man-made, the consequence of failures that laid bare how far Japan's political and technological rigor have drifted from their apex.
In recent years, supply chains are more susceptible to variety of disruptive events, including natural disasters, man-made attacks, and common failures due to their complexity, globalization, and interconnected structures.
The defense presented a version of the storm that has become an article of faith for many people in the region, that it was as much a man-made catastrophe because of the failure of the levees and of government in general, as it was a natural one.
Cracking parallel to the periosteal surface in elderly femoral bone to create apparent delaminations is a possibility suggested by the study of failure in man-made composites.
In a stark reminder of our failure to bring man-made greenhouse gases under control, scientists reported last week that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surpassed a level we think we haven't seen for 3 million years.
Tethered full time to an air compressor the size of a dishwasher, which powered his man-made heart, Dr. Clark suffered convulsions, kidney failure and memory lapses before succumbing to the inevitable.
This rings so true today, as we see the devastation of climate change, a man-made disaster caused by man's failure to respect nature.
Large amounts of snow which accumulate on top of man-made structures can lead to structural failure.
Finally, the relationship between the failure probability of a man-made undrained clay slope and its calculated FS is developed to facilitate reliability analysis and reliability-based design.
