Failure Modes and Ranges of Operation
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:26:50 GMT
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Neo's recent troll started me down a meandering path leading to these two separate but somewhat related (engineering) concerns.
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 15:26:50 GMT
Message-ID: <_Q1xh.1878$R71.27192_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Neo's recent troll started me down a meandering path leading to these two separate but somewhat related (engineering) concerns.
An operating range describes the conditions under which one of our devices will operate without failure. Failure modes are what happens when one tries to operate a device beyond that range.
The sci.logic sort of folks grapple with the problems one encounters when one tries to have an infinite range of operation. And yet one can never fully escape the failure mode problem because division by zero generally fails.
Received on Sat Feb 03 2007 - 16:26:50 CET