TY  - BOOK
AU  - Petroski,Henry
TI  - To forgive design: understanding failure 
SN  - 9780674065840 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - TA169.5 .P48 2012
U1  - 620/.00452 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
KW  - System failures (Engineering)
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -