English- translations for structural failure

Definition of structural failure

• Loss of the load-carrying capacity of a component or member within a structure or of the structure itself. Structural failure is initiated when the material in a structure is stressed to its strength limit, thus causing fracture or excessive deformations

Examples

• Three buildings in the World Trade Center Complex collapsed due to structural failure on the day of the attack.

Related words

• structural
• structurally
• post-structuralism
• infrastructural
• structuralism
• structuralist
• superstructural
• substructural
• poststructuralism
• antistructuralism