To Forgive Design : : Understanding Failure / / Henry Petroski.
When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step...
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Petroski, Henry, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut To Forgive Design : Understanding Failure / Henry Petroski. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (432 p.) : 12 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ONE. By Way of Concrete Examples -- TWO. Things Happen -- THREE. Designed to Fail -- FOUR. Mechanics of Failure -- FIVE. A Repeating Problem -- SIX. The Old and the New -- SEVEN. Searching for a Cause -- EIGHT. The Obligation of an Engineer -- NINE. Before, during, and after the Fall -- TEN. Legal Matters -- ELEVEN. Back-Seat Designers -- TWELVE. Houston, You Have a Problem -- THIRTEEN. Without a Leg to Stand On -- FOURTEEN. History and Failure -- Notes -- Illustrations -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time, from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the toppling of a massive Shanghai apartment building in 2009 to Boston's prolonged Big Dig and the 2010 Gulf oil spill. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency of people and machines within systems whose complex behavior was undreamt of by their designers, until it was too late. Petroski shows that even the simplest technology is embedded in cultural and socioeconomic constraints, complications, and contradictions.Failure to imagine the possibility of failure is the most profound mistake engineers can make. Software developers realized this early on and looked outside their young field, to structural engineering, as they sought a historical perspective to help them identify their own potential mistakes. By explaining the interconnectedness of technology and culture and the dangers that can emerge from complexity, Petroski demonstrates that we would all do well to follow their lead. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau. Structural engineering. Structural failures. System failures (Engineering). SCIENCE / History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012 9783110288995 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, ENGINEERING 2012 9783110293722 ZDB-23-DMI Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET MATHEMATIK, PHYSIK, INGENIEURWISS. 2012 9783110288926 ZDB-23-DMP Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) 9783110756067 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 print 9780674065840 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065437 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674065437 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674065437.jpg |
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