Engineering Catastrophes, Causes and Effects of major accidents
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing,
Published: 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781855733428
Subjects: Public health & preventive medicine; Technology: General Issues; Engineering - General; Catastrophes (Mathematics); Technology & Industrial Arts
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.