Category:Engineering failures
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Engineered systems that failed in a spectacular, historic or edifying way.
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Engineering failures"
The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total.
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- Engineering disasters (engineering)
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- 1999 Aggie Bonfire collapse (engineering)
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- 2010 Boston water emergency (engineering)
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- Annualized failure rate (engineering)
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- Bathtub curve (computing)
- Big Dig ceiling collapse (engineering)
- Birkenhead dock disaster (engineering)
- Buncefield fire (engineering)
- Byford Dolphin (engineering)
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- Cache stampede (computing)
- HMS Captain (1869) (engineering)
- Casco-class monitor (engineering)
- Cave Creek disaster (engineering)
- Critical system (computing)
- CTQ tree (computing)
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- MV Derbyshire (engineering)
- Downtime (computing)
- Dye-and-pry (engineering)
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- Eckwersheim derailment (engineering)
- Electrical fault (engineering)
- Eschede derailment (engineering)
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- Fail-fast (computing)
- Failing badly (computing)
- Failure analysis (engineering)
- Failure of electronic components (engineering)
- Failure modes, effects, and diagnostic analysis (computing)
- Failure rate (computing)
- Failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system (computing)
- Flixborough disaster (engineering)
- Forensic engineering (computing)
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- PS General Slocum (engineering)
- Gerrards Cross Tunnel (engineering)
- Great Molasses Flood (engineering)
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- Head-in-pillow defect (engineering)
- Hindenburg disaster (engineering)
- 2001 Humber Refinery explosion (engineering)
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- Karlino oil eruption (engineering)
- 1995 Kharkiv drinking water disaster (engineering)
- MV Kowloon Bridge (engineering)
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- Lake Peigneur (engineering)
- Levee breach (engineering)
- List of structural failures and collapses (engineering)
- Lusser's law (computing)
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- Mean down time (engineering)
- Mean time between failures (computing)
- MTTFd (computing)
- Mean time to first failure (engineering)
- Mean time to repair (engineering)
- Mechanical overload (engineering)
- Melcom (company)
- Millennium Tower (San Francisco) (engineering)
- Mission critical (computing)
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- Nicoll Highway collapse (engineering)
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- Pepsi Fruit Juice Flood (engineering)
- Power failure transfer (engineering)
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- Quantum Byzantine agreement (physics)
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- Reliability engineering (computing)
- Residual stress (physics)
- Robb Engineering (company)
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- Safety-critical system (computing)
- Salton Sea (engineering)
- Samsung Galaxy Note 7 (engineering)
- Serviceability failure (engineering)
- Single point of failure (computing)
- SL-1 (engineering)
- Steam rupture (engineering)
- Structural integrity and failure (physics)
- Switchover (computing)
- System accident (engineering)
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- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) (engineering)
- Therac-25 (computing)
- Tsai–Wu failure criterion (physics)
- Twin Shaft disaster (engineering)
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- Vasa (ship) (engineering)
- Versailles rail accident (engineering)
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- Westinghouse J40 (engineering)
- When Technology Fails (engineering)