FAILUROLOGY
A case study on engineering failures
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Ep 55 Breast Implant Recalls
Engineering News – Regenerative Bone Tissue (0:50)
This week’s engineering failure is PIP Breast Implants (3:05); our first medical engineering failure. In an effort to cut costs, PIP cut corners on…
00:35:36 |
Sun 31 Jul 2022
Ep 54 Big Bayou Canot Rail Accident
Engineering News – Safer Helmets (1:50)
This week’s engineering failure is the Big Bayou Canot Rail Accident (4:35). Big Bayou Canot became the second worst US rail disaster (9:50) after a towboat h…
00:35:49 |
Sun 17 Jul 2022
Ep 53 Gimli Glider
This week we’re taking a much needed break and featuring one of our mini failure episodes from last fall; the Gimli Glider. Unit are hard, but important. An incorrect conversion led to the plane taki…
00:34:51 |
Sun 03 Jul 2022
Ep 52 Luna Park Ghost Train Fire
Engineering News – Robot Bugs (1:55)
This week’s engineering failure is the Luna Park Ghost Ride Fire (5:40). 43 years ago, the Luna Park Ghost Ride (10:15) suffered a catastrophic fire (14:30). Ev…
00:35:46 |
Sun 19 Jun 2022
Ep 51 Teton Dam Failure
Engineering News – CO2 Capture Membrane (0:50)
This week’s engineering failure is the Teton Dam Failure (6:15). The dam catastrophically failed during its initial fill (17:15) leading to assessments…
00:44:20 |
Sun 05 Jun 2022
Ep 50 SPECIAL James Webb Space Telescope
Engineering News – Improved Solar Electricity Performance (1:35)
It’s episode 50! This week we’re talking about an engineering marvel, the James Webb Space Telescope (7:30). The telescope took deca…
00:36:10 |
Sun 22 May 2022
Ep 49 Florida Pedestrian Bridge Collapse
Engineering News – Florida Condo Laws (0:51)
This week’s engineering failure is the Florida Pedestrian Bridge (5:50). The bridge collapsed (15:15) during construction with traffic on the roadway und…
00:38:20 |
Sun 08 May 2022
Ep 48 L’Ambiance Plaza Collapse
Engineering News – Morphing Metal (4:25)
This week’s engineering failure is the L’Ambiance Plaza (6:35). There is not a consensus on the probable cause of this failure. While the National Bureau of S…
00:37:56 |
Sun 24 Apr 2022
Ep 47 Piper Alpha
This week we have a very special guest. Alonzo joins us to talk about Piper Alpha. A deep sea oil rig (5:35) exploded and sank over the course of 80 minutes (7:50). There were alot of failures that l…
00:37:15 |
Sun 10 Apr 2022
Ep 46 Second Narrows Bridge
Engineering News – 2D Polymers (2:00)
This week’s engineering failure is the Second Narrows Bridge (5:00). The cantilever bridge (7:50) collapsed during construction (12:30), with an unexpected caus…
00:28:48 |
Sun 27 Mar 2022
Ep 45 Kowloon Walled City
Engineering News – Prosthetic Dexterity (2:50)
This week’s engineering failure is the Kowloon Walled City (8:10). A city within a city, Kowloon had a deep history (9:50) in Hong Kong. Development of…
00:43:00 |
Sun 13 Mar 2022
Ep 44 Challenger Space Shuttle
Engineering News – Surgical Sticky Tape (2:25)
This week’s engineering failure is the Challenger Space Shuttle (6:20). 73 seconds after take off, the Challenger exploded (14:45) on live TV. While u…
00:43:44 |
Sun 27 Feb 2022
Ep 43 Harbor Cay Condo Construction Collapse
Engineering News – Stretchable Thermometer (2:05)
This week’s engineering failure is the Harbor Cay Condo Construction Collapse (6:10). Several issues (13:15) with the design and construction of the…
00:32:54 |
Sun 13 Feb 2022
Ep 42 United Flight 232
Engineering News – Houston Astrodome (1:45)
This week’s engineering failure is the United Flight 232 (9:20). The DC-10 aircraft (12:30) was a three engine aircraft. About an hour after take off, the…
00:49:24 |
Sun 30 Jan 2022
Ep 41 Three Mile Island
Engineering News – Calgary to Banff Train (5:25)
This week’s engineering failure is the Three Mile Island (15:10). TMI-2 or Three Mile Island Unit 2 (19:15) suffered a partial meltdown (25:00) after…
00:47:04 |
Sun 16 Jan 2022
Ep 40 SPECIAL CN Tower
Engineering News – Underwater Adhesive
This week‘s episode is about an engineering marvel, the CN Tower.
Check out our new Patreon page for Mini Failure bonus episodes - https://www.patreon.com/fai…
00:30:00 |
Sun 02 Jan 2022
Ep 39 Lake Peigneur and Cantara Loop
This week‘s episode features a sneak peek at two of our favourite bonus mini failure episodes.
The first mini failure we are sharing with you is Lake Peignuer in Louisiana (1:55). The entire lake dr…
00:27:06 |
Sun 19 Dec 2021
Ep 38 Charles de Gaulle Airport Collapse
We remember the lives lost and changed by the E’cole Polytechnique Massacre 32 years ago. (0:36)
This week‘s engineering failure is the Charles de Gaulle Airport Collapse (4:10). There were two main…
00:30:47 |
Sun 05 Dec 2021
Ep 37 2003 NE Blackout
Engineering News – LEGO is Running On 100% Renewable Energy (2:10)
This week‘s engineering failure is the 2003 Northeast Blackout (8:10). What started as a series of small events over the course of a…
00:48:24 |
Sun 21 Nov 2021
Ep 36 A Year In Review
This week Brian and Nicole are celebrating the 1 year anniversary of Failurology. They talk about why (and how) Nicole started the podcast, what changed along the way, they recapped some of their fav…
00:46:36 |
Sun 07 Nov 2021
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