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To forgive design : understanding failure / Henry Petroski. by Petroski, Henry Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, ©2012. Description:  xii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 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. 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. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 620 Pet 2012 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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