Sacrificial part
A sacrificial part is a part of a machine or product that is intentionally engineered to fail under excess mechanical stress, electrical stress, or other unexpected and dangerous situations. The sacrificial part is engineered to fail first, and thus protect other parts of the system.
Examples
Examples of sacrificial parts include:
- Electrical fuses
- Over-pressure burst disks
- Mechanical shear pins
- Galvanic anodes
- Pyrotechnic fastener
- Fusible plug
gollark: > First of all, we need to emphasize that the Pi Node software has not been released yet. So this section is offered more as an architectural design and as a request to solicit comments from the technical community. This software will be fully open source and it will also heavily depend on stellar-core which is also open source software, available here. This means that anyone in the community will be able to read, comment and propose improvements on it. Below are the Pi proposed changes to SCP to enable mining by individual devices. !!!
gollark: > Pioneer. A user of the Pi mobile app who is simply confirming that they are not a “robot” on a daily basis. This user validates their presence every time they sign in to the app. They can also open the app to request transactions (e.g. make a payment in Pi to another Pioneer)Hmm.
gollark: Presumably, if you run 1000000 emulators, they'll just exile you.
gollark: Ah, that makes sense then.
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See also
- Factor of safety – Factor by which an engineered system's capacity is higher than the expected load to ensure safety in case of error or uncertainty
- Frangibility
- Overengineering
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