To Forgive Design - Understanding Failure

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, in a book that offers a new way of looking at design to prevent damaging, and sometimes deadly, failures.

About the author

Henry Petroski was the Aleksandar S. Vesic Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Duke University.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Petroski, Petroski Henry
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2014
• EAN: 9780674416826
• ISBN: 978-0-674-41682-6
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; History, SCIENCE / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Design / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Structural, engineering, Technology: general issues, History of Science, History of engineering & technology, Technical design, Structural engineering