naa a22 4500 510778348 CHVBK 20180411083238.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11948-012-9360-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11948-012-9360-0 Del Frate Luca Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands aut Failure of Engineering Artifacts: A Life Cycle Approach [Elektronische Daten] [Luca Del Frate] Failure is a central notion both in ethics of engineering and in engineering practice. Engineers devote considerable resources to assure their products will not fail and considerable progress has been made in the development of tools and methods for understanding and avoiding failure. Engineering ethics, on the other hand, is concerned with the moral and social aspects related to the causes and consequences of technological failures. But what is meant by failure, and what does it mean that a failure has occurred? The subject of this paper is how engineers use and define this notion. Although a traditional definition of failure can be identified that is shared by a large part of the engineering community, the literature shows that engineers are willing to consider as failures also events and circumstance that are at odds with this traditional definition. These cases violate one or more of three assumptions made by the traditional approach to failure. An alternative approach, inspired by the notion of product life cycle, is proposed which dispenses with these assumptions. Besides being able to address the traditional cases of failure, it can deal successfully with the problematic cases. The adoption of a life cycle perspective allows the introduction of a clearer notion of failure and allows a classification of failure phenomena that takes into account the roles of stakeholders involved in the various stages of a product life cycle. The Author(s), 2012 Failure nationallicence Life cycle nationallicence Failure analysis nationallicence Product development nationallicence Failure trajectory nationallicence Sustainability nationallicence Science and Engineering Ethics Springer Netherlands 19/3(2013-09-01), 913-944 1353-3452 19:3<913 2013 19 11948 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-012-9360-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-012-9360-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Del Frate Luca Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX, Delft, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science and Engineering Ethics Springer Netherlands 19/3(2013-09-01), 913-944 1353-3452 19:3<913 2013 19 11948 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer