Petroski, Henry.
To forgive design : understanding failure / Henry Petroski. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012. - xii, 410 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Back-seat designers -- Houston, you have a problem -- Without a leg to stand on -- History and failure.
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.
9780674065840 (hc : alk. paper) 0674065840 (hc : alk. paper)
2011044194
System failures (Engineering)
TA169.5 / .P48 2012
620/.00452
To forgive design : understanding failure / Henry Petroski. - Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012. - xii, 410 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Back-seat designers -- Houston, you have a problem -- Without a leg to stand on -- History and failure.
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.
9780674065840 (hc : alk. paper) 0674065840 (hc : alk. paper)
2011044194
System failures (Engineering)
TA169.5 / .P48 2012
620/.00452