Aircraft engineered with failure in mind may last longer
Friday, June 15, 2012 - 04:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Complex systems inhabit a "gray world" of partial failures, MITs Olivier de Weck says: While a system may continue to operate as a whole, bits and pieces inevitably degrade. Over time, these small failures can add up to a single catastrophic failure, incapacitating the system.