Engineering failures

saline lake in Imperial and Riverside counties in California, United States

municipality in Germany

Android phablet that was produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics

wave of molasses which killed 21 people in 1919 in Boston

1937 airship accident in New Jersey

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predicted elapsed time between inherent failures of a system during operation

high-speed train accident in Germany

sub-discipline of systems engineering that emphasizes dependability in the lifecycle management of a product or a system

remaining stress in a solid material after removal of the original cause

part whose failure will disrupt the entire system

The Therac-25 was a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 (neptune) and Therac-20 units (the earlier units had been produced in partnership with of France).

frequency with which an engineered system or component fails

engineering event in which the structural integrity of a construction is compromised by failure of components of the structure

curve for failure rates over time

growth of cracks in a corrosive environment

Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One, also known as SL-1, initially the Argonne Low Power Reactor (ALPR), was a United States Army experimental nuclear reactor at the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS) in Idaho about west of Idaho Falls, now the Idaho National Laboratory. It operated from 1958 to 1961, when an accidental explosion killed three plant operators, leading to changes in reactor design. This is the only U.S. reactor accident to have caused immediate deaths.

lake in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, USA

conflagration, resulting from explosions at the Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal on 11 December 2005

tallest residential building in San Francisco

In computing and telecommunications, downtime (also (system) outage or (system) drought colloquially) is a period when a system is unavailable. The unavailability is the proportion of a time-span that a system is unavailable or offline. This is usually a result of the system failing to function because of an unplanned event, or because of routine maintenance (a planned event).

investigation of failures

river that flows from Mexico to the United States

train wreck

phrase used in Mainland China to describe a poorly constructed building

severe form of highly localized corrosion attack resulting from the presence of an electrolyte in a crevice

automated flight control feature of the Boeing 737 MAX to adapt its flying characteristics to new engines and their mounting position on the wings.

abnormal electric current

bridge in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, carries a minor road across River Clyde

train crash in Alsace, France on 14 November 2015

1984 industrial disaster in Mexico

process of collecting and analyzing data to determine the cause of a failure, often with the goal of determining corrective actions or liability

measure of the maintainability of repairable items; average time required to repair a failed component or device

system whose failure or malfunction may result in death, serious injury or other severe damage

turbojet aircraft engine

any factor (component, equipment, personnel, process, procedure, software, etc.) that is essential to business operation or to an organization

situation where a levee fails or is intentionally breached, causing the previously contained water to flood

1974 industrial accident in England

flood in Russia caused by the collapse of a PepsiCo warehouse

water contamination event in Ukraine

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