Sentence examples for mechanical errors from inspiring English sources

As the temperature varies over time and the moving parts are heavy, the thermal and mechanical errors exist a strong coupling effect, making the thermal deformation mechanism more complicated and the optimization of the structural design more difficult.

Those include human or mechanical errors and even sabotage by contaminated jet fuel.

The rig's history of mechanical errors was documented in a confidential audit conducted by BP seven months before the explosion and reviewed by The New York Times.

In the days after Tuesday's crashes, officials discounted the possibility of terrorism, offering myriad, often contradictory statements suggesting that human or mechanical errors were the cause, despite the coincidence of simultaneous air disasters.

The new reactor's simplified design also means that fewer motors, pumps and pipes are needed, reducing not only the potential for mechanical errors, but also costs of maintenance, inspections and repairs.

That led to a cascade of human and mechanical errors that allowed natural gas under tremendous pressure to shoot onto the drilling platform, causing an explosion and fire that killed 11 of the 126 crew members and caused an oil spill that took 87 days to get under control.

Had it been a mechanical error?

"It looks like it will have been down to both human and mechanical error.

A county lawyer blamed a "mechanical error" for the bad diagnosis.

They said the new system encountered problems like vague mechanical error messages and power cables vulnerable to tampering.

Correction: January 7 , 2001 Sunday Because of a mechanical error, the Streetscapes column last Sunday, about the architect Robert L. Bien, was truncated.