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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Petroski, Henry.     Subjects     System failures (Engineering)     Browse Catalog     by author:      Petroski, Henry.       by title:      To forgive design : ...         MARC Display

To forgive design : understanding failure / Henry Petroski. by Petroski, Henry. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. Subjects System failures (Engineering) ISBN:  9780674065840 (hc : alk. paper) : 0674065840 (hc : alk. paper) Description:  xii, 410 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 620.00452 Pe Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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