mechanical failure
21Mechanical snubber — A mechanical snubber is a mechanical device designed to protect components from excess shock or sway caused by seismic disturbances or other transient forces.[1] During normal operating conditions, the snubber allows for movement in tension and… …
22Mechanical probe station — An automated probe station by Cascade Microtech A Mechanical probe station is used to physically acquire signals from the internal nodes of a semiconductor device. The probe station utilizes manipulators which allow the precise positioning of… …
23failure — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Nonperformance Nouns 1. failure, unsuccessfulness, nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; dead failure, abortion, miscarriage, malfunction, outage; bankruptcy (see nonpayment); labor in vain; no go; inefficacy;… …
24failure — The state of insufficiency or nonperformance. backward heart f. a concept (formerly considered mutually exclusive with forward heart f.) that maintains that the phenomena of congestive heart f. result from passive engorgement of the veins caused… …
25mechanical placebo — n. A device or object that appears to perform a specific function, but in fact does nothing at all. Example Citations: Consequently, most of the devices were deactivated by the later 1980s, but the buttons themselves and the signs bearing the… …
26mechanical circulatory support — (MCS) the use of mechanical means, such as an intra aortic balloon pump or a ventricular assist device, to help maintain the circulation in patients with heart failure …
27mechanical — adj. Mechanical is used with these nouns: ↑breakdown, ↑damage, ↑defect, ↑device, ↑doll, ↑efficiency, ↑engineer, ↑engineering, ↑failure, ↑fault, ↑force, ↑ …
28Micro-Mechanics of Failure — Figure 1. Hierarchy of micromechanics based analysis procedure for composite structures. Micro Mechanics of Failure (MMF) is a newly proposed methodology, providing a more logical explanation of failure mechanism of continuous f …
29Structural failure — v · d · e Materials failure modes Buckling · …
30Metallurgical failure analysis — is the process by which a metallurgist determines the mechanism that has caused a metal component to fail. Typical failure modes involve various types of corrosion and mechanical damage. It has been estimated that the direct annual cost of… …
