"prevailing failure" is a perfectly correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to a widespread, ongoing, and persistent lack of success or accomplishment in some endeavor. For example, "The government's education policy has resulted in a prevailing failure of students to reach the expected academic standards."
Two prevailing failure modes of different dimensional scales were observed in the materials.
This led to the identification of prevailing failure modes for MGB lubrication systems and key contributing components.
Moreover, the influence of prestress level on the prevailing failure mode of the tested beams was assessed, and the relevant results are presented and discussed.
Initial tests are undertaken on the plain aluminum honeycomb material in order to characterize its specific energy absorption (SEA) capability and to identify the prevailing failure mechanisms.
With respect to the landscape partitioning methods mentioned above, slope units can be resized according to the prevailing failure type and dimension, thereby partitioning a river basin into nested subdivisions: coarser for larger landslides and finer for smaller failures.
Furthermore, the competition of crack initiation between the free edge interface (180° opening angle) and a 90° notch interface in a generic specimen is investigated, in order to find out which is the prevailing failure mode.
The failure modes are ductile due to prevailing concrete failures.
A joint design philosophy was proposed to optimize both joint performance (the prevailing torque, the failure torque and the failure mode) and manufacturing easiness (the hole diameter and corresponding draft angle).
The grain size heterogeneity produced by FSW was not the prevailing cause of failure.
Thirty patients had specified the cause of renal failure, prevailing diabetes mellitus and hypertension.
As such, a prevailing theory of heart failure posits that the failing heart is "energy-starved".
