text To forgive design : understanding failure
- Summary
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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
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- Description
- 410 p.;
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2012
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Woodmere (Main Branch) | 620 PET in Adult Non-fiction | Reshelving |
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TADL-WOOD | 620 PET in Adult Non-fiction | Reshelving |
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