To forgive design : understanding failure

Author(s)

• Petroski, Henry

Bibliographic Information

To forgive design : understanding failure

Henry Petroski

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012

• : hc

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BB09897530
• ISBN:
  • 9780674065840
• LCCN: 2011044194
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 410 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : TA169.5
  • DC23 : 620/.00452
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : System failures (Engineering)