To forgive design : understanding failure / Henry Petroski.

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Petroski, Henry [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Engineering case studies onlinePublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2012]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 410 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674068896
0674068890
9780674065437
0674065433

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: To forgive design.DDC classification:

620/.00452 23

LOC classification:

TA169.5 .P48 2012eb

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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 -- Back-seat designers -- Houston, you have a problem -- Without a leg to stand on -- History and 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.

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This edition in English.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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