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, MIT’s 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.

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