To forgive design [electronic resource] : understanding failure / Henry Petroski.
Petroski, Henry.
2012
TA169.5 .P48 2012eb
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Title To forgive design [electronic resource] : understanding failure / Henry Petroski.
Author Petroski, Henry.
ISBN 9780674065437 electronic book
9780674068896 electronic book
0674068890 electronic book
9780674065840
0674065840
0674065433
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 410 p.) : ill.
Call Number TA169.5 .P48 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 620/.00452
Summary When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Petroski, known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, says we must look beyond design to the interdependency of people and machines within complex socioeconomic systems undreamt of by designers.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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