Sentence examples for preferred failure from inspiring English sources
Open image in new window Fig. 2 Regular, double-layer space truss, layout and preferred failure mechanism under uniform normal nodal loading.
The general scheme of a regular, rectangular pyramid base, simply supported, DLG under a uniform distribution of normal nodal forces and the preferred failure mechanism involving the plastic extensions of the lower chord members is shown in Fig. 2.
Debonding at the FRP-to-masonry interface has been identified as the preferred failure mechanism in fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) retrofitted masonry as it allows for some redistribution of forces.
Further, the undesirable failure modes are balanced with the yield mechanisms and the preferred failure mode, brace fracture, to ensure that the frame fails in the desired manner.
Detailed transmission electron microscopy revealed the nature of deformation bands as deformation twins which is not a preferred failure mode for austenitic stainless steels.
That's where Gremlin's "resiliency as a service" comes in (I prefer "failure as a service" but Andrus told me that is hard to sell to enterprise. Go figure).
In this study, investigators preferentially proposed FOLFOX after gemcitabine failure, while gemcitabine-based treatment was preferred after failure of the sequential arm.
Flexural failure is generally preferred to shear failure as the strength-governing failure mode because the former is ductile, which allows stress redistribution and provides warning to occupants while the latter is brittle and catastrophic.
Some other studies have been silent regarding fuzzy failure rates, whereas engineers designing redundant systems would prefer the failure rates expressed as linguistic terms that can be effectively modeled as fuzzy numbers.
Yet even if, in private, some leaders might prefer a failure next week, it is probably too late for that.
Even Jacques Chirac of France, who speaks publicly of the urgent necessity for a deal, might privately prefer a failure.Only a few years ago in Nice Mr Chirac fought tooth-and-nail to stop Germany securing more voting power than France; yet just such a change is central to the constitution.
