design failure

An investigation found that the accident had been caused by human, mechanical and design failures.

If I have to sit there and wait for an appreciable amount of time between actions, that is a game design failure.

He added that the church was not a "design failure - it's brilliant and very well-balanced."

The Mogamis have been seen by naval architects as a design failure.

She was also underpowered, and became one of Troup's few design failures.

The report further stated that e-commerce companies would lose $14 billion in holiday sales because of such design failures.

The A-2 sights are made of plastic, which becomes an overall design failure for an inexpensive firearm.

Occasionally, these shortcuts can lead to unexpected design failures that cause engineering disasters.

It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than malfunction or simple stupidity.

"It could be called a design failure."

- Michael Schumacher said that deaths in motorsports are "fate," not necessarily design failure.

"He could be seven hundred years old," Tiny said, "and he'd still be God's biggest design failure.

Another major design failure was the "unsittable" ledge that ran along almost the entire length of the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue.

But the craft, built by ford Aerospace of Detroit, developed a fault, seemingly because of a design failure.

Design failures are displayed graphically, as are statistical tables and execution timelines.

Although the report identified a software bug as the direct cause, other investigators see the causes as system design failures and management issues:

"Materials don't fail; people fail," he likes to say, quoting from a large tome on design failures atop his desk.

"Another design failure," Bickel sneered.

Also the rubber bushing may perish over time leading to its failure under loads below its designed failure load.

The most significant design failure was the almost complete lack of shopping facilities and banks: only a few "corner shops" were initially built at Tavy Bridge.

Initial reviews were disappointing citing mediocre accuracy and occasional malfunctions, but these may be related to quality control issues and ammunition choice rather than design failure.

Discussion started as to whether the eight-month-old station was suffering from design failures, but these claims were rejected by both the Deutsche Bahn and the architect.

The laptop was infamous for a huge number of design failures, overheating, battery failures, connector loosening, motherboard failures.

The LSU report subsequently found that overtopping did not occur, rather, design failures precipited the levee failures.

Whyte was puzzled by design failures in the original General Motors plaza that lessened its appeal to the hundreds of thousands of people who passed by.