Sentences with phrase «catastrophic failure»

The systems must be built to protect themselves from catastrophic failure in order to avoid risk of damaging significant portions of a harvest.

Are they all expected to suffer catastrophic failure requiring repair by total replacement after a short life?

A number of features of cooling systems contribute to their overall reliability, including protection from catastrophic failures, design for energy efficiency, and ability to handle a wide range of operating conditions.

And maintain them you must of you want to avoid catastrophic failures.

The only way to combat catastrophic failures is with smaller, more manageable ones.

This is beneficial if you ever need to access files while you're away from the office, or if you're concerned about catastrophic failure of your own business server.

By their nature, catastrophic failures don't occur often, and we believe they will never happen to us, so we see them, evaluate them — and ignore them.

What I do expect is for a well maintained vehicle not have catastrophic failures whichever make you choose.

But there is no way that this car didn't have a check engine light, or make any strange noises before catastrophic failure.

This disease will vary in severity among dogs, with some suffering catastrophic failure to pump blood (when the heart rhythm is severely disturbed) while others can live perfectly normal lives.

These crazes redistribute the stress, so there is no localized point of stress that can cause catastrophic failure.

As Brent Coker, a marketing professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia, says, «Ensuring the success of a viral - produced movie is still largely hit - and - miss... babies, pranks, and stunts seem to have great success on some occasions, but turn into catastrophic failures on others.»

Play as a cybernetic survivor who is activated by the UAC to fight the demon invasion, maintain order, and prevent catastrophic failure at the Mars facility.

High - reliability - organization (HRO) practices help prevent catastrophic failures in complex systems like nuclear power plants through early detection.

Regarding # 268 (potential catastrophic failure of aquifers)... I found this curious.

They are, after all, situated in a densely populated area — 20 million people live within a 50 - mile radius — which means that, in the unlikely event of a terrorist attack or a powerful earthquake or some other catastrophic failure, we'll all turn into radioactive zombies.

If not, more catastrophic failures similar to the Minneapolis I - 35W Bridge Collapse in 2007 and the San Bruno, Calif., gas transmission line explosion in September of 2010 could occur.

This will be Calderwood's first London based solo show in 3 years and a continuation of Matt's exploration of the turning point where power and strength flips into catastrophic failure or more often the focus is on the point just before the crash when thought and suspense hangs in the air.

In extreme events those particles can cause malfunction of satellites or even catastrophic failure of entire satellite systems.

Overcharging of the anode can lead to so much Lithium electroplating that it forms metallic dendrites and eventually pierce the separator causing an internal short circuit with the cathode and subsequent catastrophic failure.

Fox asks why we would tolerate a 30 - 50 % failure rate for gas well casings when we expect aircraft to be designed and built to operate without catastrophic failures 99.99999 % of the time.

Indeed, if anything, techno - utopianism of the kind promoted by technology geniuses like Thiel and Google's Ray Kurzweil, as well as futurist academics, is a Tower of Babel enterprise doomed to the same catastrophic failure, disappointment, and dire consequences.

If not maintained in a timely manner catastrophic failures will endanger public health and safety.

But the computer modeling only analyzed catastrophic failure at one reactor at each of these nuclear power plants, despite the fact that Peach Bottom and Surry each have two reactors on site.

Left unattended, the cracks could trigger catastrophic failure in subsequent earthquakes of even modest power.

From the very first shuttle flight, flown by Columbia in 1981, NASA calculated the odds of catastrophic failure during launch to be 1 in 78.

Radiation can create electric charges in electronics that cause errors, including catastrophic failures.

A cushioner will have a number of potential partners «on ice», ready to swoop in should catastrophic failure occur in their main relationship; it's effectively synonymous with not putting all your eggs into one basket and spreading your bets.

It happened in 2010 when, under the auspices of the BP oil company, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in catastrophic failure off the coast of Mexico.

I have experienced a high pressure fuel pump catastrophic failure and Volkswagen told me that since I am eight thousand miles over my warranty too bad they will not help me in any way shape matter or form do you have any suggestions?

Car runs and (slowly) achieves highway speeds, travels 50 miles a day so no catastrophic failure.

A broken retainer on a roller lifter is a surefire way to trash a cam but that falls under catastrophic failure.

«Enabled identification of potentially catastrophic failures early in the product life cycle, thus reducing risk, slashing remedial costs downstream, and avoiding billions of dollars in possible losses from warranty claims.»

I must say that, by now, it seems almost pointless: the UK's climate change act and its grandiose gestures — Green New Deals, green energy revolutions, and so on — are catastrophic failures on their own terms.

You can't say that about older Jags, which were known to overheat, stall and suffer catastrophic failures for no apparent reason.

This type of instability is known as flutter, and it can cause catastrophic failure.

In his capacity as LEPS Committee chair, Hayes has taken a special interest in such issues as the continuing 35 - million - gallon - a-day leakage of the New York City Water Supply's West Branch Tunnel in the Town of Wawarsing, where he initiated the implementation of an Emergency Response Plan for a potential catastrophic failure of the Tunnel.

The manuscript also addresses HDR brachytherapy procedures, the use of checklists and forms, the multidisciplinary treatment team, challenges to maintaining safe use of HDR brachytherapy and key measures for avoiding catastrophic failure.

As we saw in the Fukushima accident, they depend on pumps to keep them from catastrophic failure, a major weak point.

Play as a cybernetic survivor who is activated by the UAC to fight the demon invasion, maintain order, and prevent catastrophic failure at the Mars facility.

Understanding this type of instability can prevent catastrophic failures and help generate power

The BPY 2.0 t is a much more catastrophic failure.

It can seem really daunting at first for players not used to the genre, however after getting a hang of it, you'll start paying attention to make your factories look good beyond simply functioning without catastrophic failures.