The field of engineering evolves daily. The marvels of engineering far outweigh the failures/disasters. These failures and/or disasters result when engineers and designers push boundaries by building ...

The disastrous explosion of the submersible Titan in June 2023 that took five lives of people on an expedition to the Titanic wreckage has been accredited to the assembly of profoundly disturbing ...

Failure analysis (FA) is an essential step for achieving sufficient yield in semiconductor manufacturing, but it’s struggling to keep pace with smaller dimensions, advanced packaging, and new power ...

Every engineer is going to have a bad day, but only an unlucky few will have a day so bad that it registers on a seismometer. We’ve always had a morbid fascination with engineering mega-failures, few ...

No significant architecture failure in large-scale enterprise systems is entirely new. Instead, every failure contains an ...

A critical piece of equipment develops cracks. Vibration increases, and problems escalate until the system fails. Maintenance teams struggle to implement a permanent fix while the supplier offers no ...