To forgive design : understanding failure / Henry Petroski.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012Description: xii, 410 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 9780674065840 (hc : alk. paper); 0674065840 (hc : alk. paper)Subject(s): System failures (Engineering)DDC classification: 620/.00452 LOC classification: TA169.5 | .P48 2012| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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