LEADER 02521oam 2200613I 450 001 9910463015603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-86206-9 010 $a1-136-28614-4 010 $a0-203-11329-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203113295 035 $a(CKB)2670000000312407 035 $a(EBL)1092774 035 $a(OCoLC)820787720 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000783058 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11442802 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783058 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10753257 035 $a(PQKB)11585455 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1092774 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1092774 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10632455 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL417456 035 $a(OCoLC)897563525 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000312407 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDesigning to avoid disaster $ethe nature of fracture-critical design /$fThomas Fisher 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-52736-8 311 $a0-415-52735-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index. 327 $apt. I. The nature of fracture-critical design -- pt. II. How fracture-critical design affects our lives -- pt. III. Designing to avoid future disasters. 330 $aRecent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing prices, all stem from what author Thomas Fisher calls fracture-critical design. This is design in which structures and systems have so little redundancy and so much interconnectedness and misguided efficiency that they fail completely if any one part does not perform as intended. If 606 $aDesign$xMethodology 606 $aSafety factor in engineering 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aDesign$xMethodology. 615 0$aSafety factor in engineering. 676 $a620.8/6 700 $aFisher$b Thomas$f1953-,$0885941 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463015603321 996 $aDesigning to avoid disaster$92226159 997 $aUNINA