Engineering Catastrophies
Subtitle: Causes and Effects of Major Accidents
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing,
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781855732049
Subjects: Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building; Public health & preventive medicine; Special Interest - Adventure; Travel - General
First sentence: It is natural to associate the word 'catastrophe' with some large-scale event such as the collision of two passenger aircraft, or the destruction by fire of a major offshore oil platform like Piper Alpha.