To forgive design : understanding failure / Henry Petroski.

Main entry:

Petroski, Henry.

Title & Author:

To forgive design : understanding failure / Henry Petroski.

Publication:

Description:

xii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
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.

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.

Resources:
Honor with Books

ISBN:

9780674065840 (hc ; alk. paper)
0674065840 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780674416826
0674416821
9780674065437
0674065433

Subject:

System failures (Engineering)
Pannes.
Technology.
Structural failures.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283790
Call No.: TA169.5 .P48 2012
Status: Available

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