This paper presents an industrial application of “Dysfunction Mode and Effects Critical Analysis” (DMECA) to determine and analyze possible dysfunctions in a complex management process. The approach conceptually derived from the Failure Mode and Effect Critical Analysis (FMECA) technique. DMECA enables user to analyze all possible dysfunctions of management processes, identify the subsequent ef...

In this paper, we present the current state of a failure mode taxonomy, and discuss its potential to explore the failure mode space of aerospace applications. More fundamentally, we discuss what constitutes a good description of a failure that can be detected at the conceptual design stage. Elemental (physics-based) descriptions of failure modes are derived for several domains identified throug...

It is believed that the failure mode of metal nanowires under tensile loading is the result of the nucleation and propagation of dislocations. Such failure modes can be slip, partial slip or twinning and therefore they are regarded as local deformation. Here we provide numerical and theoretical evidences to show that global deformation is another predominant failure mode of nanowires under tens...