Search
To forgive design : understanding failure

text To forgive design : understanding failure

Summary

Argues that failures in structural engineering are not necessarily due to the physical design of the structures, but instead a misunderstanding of how cultural and socioeconomic constraints would affect the structures.

Contents
By way of concrete examples -- Things happen -- Designed to fail -- Mechanics of failure -- A repeating problem -- The old and the new -- Searching for a cause -- The obligation of an engineer -- Before, during, and after the fall -- Legal matters... Read more
Format
text
Description
410 p.;
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2012

Available Copies

Library Location Status
Woodmere (Main Branch) 620 PET in Adult Non-fiction Reshelving

All Copies (Show)

Genres (Show)

Subjects (Show)

chat loading...
Back to Top