Acute renal failure (ARF) is a frequent complication in hospitalized patients and is strongly related to increase in mortality. In order to analyze the clinical outcome and the prognostic factors in hospital-acquired ARF ...

Acute renal failure (ARF) is a frequent complication in hospitalized patients and is strongly related to increase in mortality. In order to analyze the clinical outcome and the prognostic factors in hospital-acquired ARF ...

This paper discusses component age-related degradation and failure initiated from a shared cause and coupling factor (or mechanism) and the likelihood of the resulting common cause failure (CCF). For these components a CCF ...

Until a few years ago there had been no record of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) as a main cause of failures in Argentine pipelines, but as the pipeline system became of a certain age this mechanism started to have an ...

Natural disasters, depending on both how many occur concurrently and their size, may produce large-scale correlated failures in data network infrastructure. These failures may cause service interruptions due to disconnections ...

This book addresses the failures of structural elements, i.e. those components whose primary mission is to withstand mechanical loads. The book is intended as a self-contained source for those with different technical ...

Catastrophic failure of cranes is a potentially very dangerous event and has often fatal consequences. The failures of two cranes are discussed in this study. Both cranes have different designs, but common root causes have ...