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  • What is a catastrophic failure?

    Rajkiran Sangoju

    Rajkiran Sangoju

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    Updated: Oct 13, 2024
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    What is a catastrophic failure? Why a design engineer should consider it as the greatest failure?what might be the causes for such failure?what measures can be taken to avoid or atleast to delay such a failure to occur? please answer these questions in brief.
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  • Kaustubh Katdare

    Administrator • Jul 4, 2013

    I've merged your last post with the first post in the thread 😀
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  • Sarathkumar Chandrasekaran

    Member • Jul 4, 2013

    I searched for it and learned a lot.So I want to share with fellow CEans.

    Definition:sudden failure,breakdown,collapse,complete failure .
    common causes:
    #human factors(improper handling)
    #design flaws,
    #material failures,
    #Extreme working conditions,
    #carelessness
    #not depth in subject knowledge

    Efforts required to avoid catastrophic failures:
    #thorough analysis(use modern day softwares to simulate the working conditions.)
    #learn from your experience and learn from past history.
    #find root cause of problem and find alternatives.
    #Evaluate the alternatives.
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  • zaveri

    Member • Jul 4, 2013

    I will give an example:

    you are driving your car at a high speed, and when you want to stop or slow down, you hit the brake pedal, and whoa ! nothing happens !

    what happens after that you can imagine for yourself.

    the failure of the brakes in this case is an example of catastrophic failure.
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  • Rajkiran Sangoju

    Member • Jul 5, 2013

    Kaustubh Katdare
    I've merged your last post with the first post in the thread 😀
    thanks😀
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