The phrase "mechanical life" is correct in written English and is used to refer to a life that is monotonous or boring.
For example: "After years of mundane tasks and routines, my life seemed to be a mechanical life with no end in sight."
SURPRISE -- I didn't like the Passat unless I was thrashing it to within an inch of its mechanical life.
This includes not only experimental therapies, but also toxic "proven" chemotherapies, dubious herbal treatments and long-term mechanical life support.
Magical where Hugo was mechanical, Life of Pi comes warmed by Lee's characteristic empathy, tact and sonar-like ability to sound out hidden emotion.
Helen, by contrast, somehow establishes her womanhood by marrying her inventor and then sacrificing her own mechanical life upon her husband's death.
In its own way, the quest for a definitive scientific answer to the question of whether violent media cause violence is as persistent and as elusive as the dream of mechanical life.
She ends with a visit to a modern Japanese robotics laboratory, which brings the age-old obsession with creating mechanical life right up to date but also demonstrates how little has changed since the days of Vaucanson.
Samus finds and destroys Mother Brain, the mechanical life-form that controls the Space Pirates' base.
And what of the millions of spouses and partners who had to make the heartbreaking decision to end mechanical life-support for their spouses when all medical possibility and any hope for recovery had come to an end?
As a last resort, the Federation decides to send a lone bounty hunter to penetrate the Pirates' base and destroy Mother Brain, the mechanical life-form that controls the Space Pirates' fortress and its defenses.
At a corresponding strain amplitude, the thermal-mechanical fatigue life was lower than that of isothermal fatigue, and the TMF life of out-of-phase cycling was higher than that of in-phase cycling.
To predict the thermo-mechanical fatigue life of the microvias through physics-based models accurate estimation of damage metrics, such as plastic strain and total strain range is critical.
