What is a catastrophic failure?

@rajkiran-UQZEAj • Oct 13, 2024

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

@thebigk • Jul 4, 2013

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

@sarathkumar-FEGRPw • 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

@zaveri-5TD6Sk • 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

@rajkiran-UQZEAj • Jul 5, 2013

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