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Autore |
Downer John (John R.) |
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Rational accidents : reckoning with catastrophic technologies / / John Downer |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2023] |
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9780262377010 |
0262377012 |
9780262377027 |
0262377020 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Reliability (Engineering) |
Aircraft accidents - Prevention |
Risk assessment |
Industrial safety |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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"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"-- |
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