failure mechanism

collocation in English

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failure
noun
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/ˈfeɪ.ljər/us
/ˈfeɪ.ljɚ/
the fact of someone or something ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
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/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us
/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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(Definition offailureandmechanismfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The primaryfailuremechanismis found to be unsteadiness in the induction zone arising from the deceleration of the wave front.
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As stated in the table above, experiments are always combinations of afailuremechanismto be studied, a loading scheme, and several measuring methods.
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Thefailuremechanismmay be due to void nucleation and expansion on a microscopic level.
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Thefailuremechanismthat caused this can be of many different kinds, and often multiple factors play a role at the same time.
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Using this method, the site, the mechanicalfailuremechanismand the time to eventual failure may be determined.
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It is the result of thefailuremechanism(cause of the failure mode).
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The cause of fiber pull-out (another form offailuremechanism) and delamination is weak bonding.
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This type of tantalum capacitor does not require the same derating that a solid tantalum does and itsfailuremechanismis open.
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Electrical tracking, sometimes called "dry banding", is a typicalfailuremechanismfor electrical power insulators that are subjected to salt spray contamination along coastlines.
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For example; fatigue or corrosion of a structural beam or fretting corrosion in an electrical contact is afailuremechanismand in itself (likely) not a failure mode.
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The viscous nature of the bitumen binder allows asphalt concrete to sustain significant plastic deformation, although fatigue from repeated loading over time is the most commonfailuremechanism.
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Brunel was aware that the likelyfailuremechanismof this girder was by buckling collapse in the upper flange, which would be under compression forces.
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The failure mechanisms are divided in "orientation dependent" and "orientation independent".
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This technique relies on understanding the physical static and dynamic failure mechanisms.
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The failure mechanisms of components are known in the specification for the product development.
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It is based on observed phenomenon instead of the failure mechanisms.
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Modes of failure are also known as' failure mechanisms'.
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Some additional examples of cartilage failure mechanisms include cellular matrix linkage rupture, chondrocyte protein synthesis inhibition, and chondrocyte apoptosis.
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The most important fundamental initiating causes and failure mechanisms are to be identified and analyzed with engineering tools.
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