Sentence examples for rational failure from inspiring English sources

The rational failure analysis procedure, evaluating the loading conditions at a crack part considering change of compliance of the piping system with crack extension, was proposed.

This chapter examines the engineering properties of Type X gypsum board and aims to measure these properties and organize them into a rational failure theory that will allow engineering design of gypsum board fire barriers.

The step-by-step methodology implemented in this study may contribute to the ongoing development of rational failure criteria that can replace the statistical/empirical algorithms currently used in pavement design procedures.

It is envisaged that the methodology implemented in this study can be extended and thereby contribute to the ongoing development of rational failure criteria that can replace the empirical formulas currently used in pavement engineering.

Cyclic behavior of polymers and PMCs have been extensively explored experimentally, but a rational fatigue failure model that would be anchored in the microstructure and would allow for coupling between fatigue, creep and plasticity through the lifetime is lacking.

According to rational theory, the failure probabilities of a given safety barrier X i are affected by a combination of latent or physical and dependent or independent random variables.

It is distinguished from the philosophical discipline of ethics, which relies upon the authority of reason and which can only call upon rational sanctions for moral failure.

Thus, it is impossible to determine whether evidence of a risk premium is in fact attributed to a time-varying risk or to the failure of rational expectations.

As a result, rational control of the failure mode is one of the most effective ways to enhance the seismic behavior of the joint.

To achieve the objectives of the design methodology namely maximum drift capacity, and adherence to a desired yield and failure hierarchy, rational resistance checks and appropriate balance factors (β factors) are used to balance each yield mechanism and failure mode.

The upright democratic allies on the ground only existed in numbers too weak to count politically or militarily; nor could the CIA in Vietnam conjure them out of thin air; and a failure of rational doubt set the United States on the long downward spiral of that war.