Why buildings fall down
Subtitle: How Structures fail
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 334
Description: First published as a Norton paperback
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: 9; label: Acknowledgments
title: 11; label: Introduction
title: 13; label: 1. The First Structural Failure
title: 17; label: 2. Miracle on Thirty-fourth Street
title: 25; label: 3. Will the Pantheon Stand Up Forever?
title: 31; label: 4. For Lack of Redundancy
title: 55; label: 5. Big Bangs
title: 76; label: 6. The Day the Earth Shook
title: 90; label: 7. Galloping Gertie
title: 109; label: 8. When Metals Tire
title: 121; label: 9. Thruways to Eternity
title: 134; label: 10. The Weaknesses of Mother Earth
title: 149; label: 11. Valley of Tears
title: 161; label: 12. The House of Cards
title: 173; label: 13. Structural Dermatology
title: 183; label: 14. Old-Age Death
title: 207; label: 15. The Worst Structural Disaster in the United States
title: 221; label: 16. The Politics of Destruction
title: 231; label: 17. The Structure of the Law
title: 242; label: 18. Conclusion: Can We Prevent Future Failures?
title: 257; label: Appendices; label: A. Loads
title: 269; label: B. Stress and Strain
title: 277; label: C. Structural Materials
title: 280; label: D. Structural Systems
title: 283; label: Index
title: 315