Catastrophic failure
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A catastrophic failure is a sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible. Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure. The term is most commonly used for structural failures, but has often been extended to many other disciplines in which total and irrecoverable loss occurs. Such failures are investigated using the methods of forensic engineering, which aims to isolate the cause or causes of failure.
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See also
- List of bridge disasters
- Seismic performance
- Structural collapse
- Structural failure
- Resonance disaster
- Risks to civilization, humans and planet Earth
- Dragon King Theory
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