Sentences with phrase «of hydraulic failure»

Drought will not leave your glass empty: Low risk of hydraulic failure revealed by long - term drought observations in world's top wine regions.

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In particular, she blamed Cuomo's political machinations for the failure of campaign finance and ethics reform efforts, and for New York not outlawing natural gas extraction through the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing.

These embolisms block the flow of water, leading to a phenomenon called hydraulic failure.

To study how Amazonian trees responded to drought, Santiago's team plucked branches from the tops of trees in French Guiana's Paracou Research Station and studied them in a lab to determine how readily they develop hydraulic failure, which is a function of their physics, including the dimensions of their plumbing and the pressure their vessels can withstand.

Though confronted by a variety of threats, tree mortality in the tropics often boils down to two phenomena: «Carbon starvation» due to lack of food and «hydraulic failure» due to a lack of water.

Even with the closure of their stomata, plants still lose water when it's hot, and hydraulic failure — a lack of water a tree needs to survive — poses at least as much a threat as carbon starvation.

Oil and gas development activities, including underground disposal of wastewater and hydraulic fracturing, may induce earthquakes by changing the state of stress on existing faults to the point of failure.

The other worry is failure of the hydraulic gear selectors, which can leak or even explode.

(iv) a failure to remove architectural barriers, and communication barriers that are structural in nature, in existing facilities, and transportation barriers in existing vehicles and rail passenger cars used by an establishment for transporting individuals (not including barriers that can only be removed through the retrofitting of vehicles or rail passenger cars by the installation of a hydraulic or other lift), where such removal is readily achievable; and

The system is designed to lock automatically in case of both hydraulic and electric failure.

Hudson automobiles used an unusual hybrid hydraulic - mechanical dual - brake system which operated the rear brakes through the otherwise conventional mechanical parking brake system when a failure of the hydraulic system allowed the pedal to travel beyond its normal limit.

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There are certain types of equipment in semi-trucks that typically malfunction and more frequently cause truck accidents, including tire blowouts, tread separation, defective wheels, brake or brake pad failure, steering defects, defective trailer hitch, defective safety straps, and broken hydraulic hoses, among others.

• Assisted in determining cause of engine or transmission failures by performing detailed inspections • Drove vehicles from pickup points to the workshop and ensured that they were delivered back in time • Assured that all repair and maintenance of fleet vehicles was done in accordance to federal DOT regulations • Provided support in repairing and maintaining hydraulic, pneumatic and mechanical systems • Performed preventative maintenance on fleet vehicles such as oil changes and parts lubrication