To forgive design
Subtitle: understanding failure
By: Henry Petroski
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780674065840
Subjects: System failures (Engineering)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: By way of concrete examples; title: Things happen; title: Designed to fail; title: Mechanics of failure; title: A repeating problem; title: The old and the new; title: Searching for a cause; title: The obligation of an engineer; title: Before, during, and after the fall; title: Legal matters; title: Back-seat designers; title: Houston, you have a problem; title: Without a leg to stand on; title: History and failure.