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Record Nr.

UNINA9910901888903321

Autore

Downer John (John R.)

Titolo

Rational accidents : reckoning with catastrophic technologies / / John Downer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2023]

ISBN

9780262377010

0262377012

9780262377027

0262377020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Inside technology

Disciplina

620/.00452

Soggetti

Reliability (Engineering)

Aircraft accidents - Prevention

Risk assessment

Industrial safety

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"There are limits to what engineers can know, and this means that not every technological failure can be anticipated or avoided. The book explores this observation in the context of technologies that cannot be allowed to fail, e.g., jetliners"--