To Forgive Design

Understanding Failure

Henry Petroski

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ISBN 9780674416826

Publication Date: 11/24/2014

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432 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

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Belknap Press

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Preface
1. By Way of Concrete Examples
2. Things Happen
3. Designed to Fail
4. Mechanics of Failure
5. A Repeating Problem
6. The Old and the New
7. Searching for a Cause
8. The Obligation of an Engineer
9. Before, during, and after the Fall
10. Legal Matters
11. Back-Seat Designers
12. Houston, You Have a Problem
13. Without a Leg to Stand On
14. History and Failure
Notes
Illustrations
Index

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