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To forgive design : understanding failure / Henry Petroski.

Petroski, Henry. (Author).
  • Description: xii, 410 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
  • ISBN: 9780674065840 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0674065840 (alk. paper)

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  • 6 copies at NOBLE (All Libraries).

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Beverly Main NEW TA 169.5 .P48 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
Gloucester Adult Nonfiction 620/Petroski (Text to phone) Available -
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Merrimack College Stacks (3rd) TA169.5 .P48 2012 (Text to phone) Available -
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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.
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.

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