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In engineering, a serviceability failure is when a structure does not collapse, but during a certain period of time it does not meet the required specifications (for example, when severe wind causes an excess of vibration at a pedestrian bridge and it may not be not crossed safely, with comfort, or when during a tempest, water overtops over a coastal structure so boats are not safe behind the structure).

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