LEADER 03716nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910791936703321 005 20230802012606.0 010 $a0-674-06543-3 010 $a0-674-06889-0 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065437 035 $a(CKB)2560000000082525 035 $a(OCoLC)794004250 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10568019 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000659143 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12257951 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000659143 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10694575 035 $a(PQKB)10836013 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301076 035 $a(DE-B1597)178210 035 $a(OCoLC)840442416 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065437 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301076 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568019 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000082525 100 $a20111021d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTo forgive design$b[electronic resource] $eunderstanding failure /$fHenry Petroski 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (427 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-06584-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tONE. By Way of Concrete Examples -- $tTWO. Things Happen -- $tTHREE. Designed to Fail -- $tFOUR. Mechanics of Failure -- $tFIVE. A Repeating Problem -- $tSIX. The Old and the New -- $tSEVEN. Searching for a Cause -- $tEIGHT. The Obligation of an Engineer -- $tNINE. Before, during, and after the Fall -- $tTEN. Legal Matters -- $tELEVEN. Back-Seat Designers -- $tTWELVE. Houston, You Have a Problem -- $tTHIRTEEN. Without a Leg to Stand On -- $tFOURTEEN. History and Failure -- $tNotes -- $tIllustrations -- $tIndex 330 $aWhen planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time, from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the toppling of a massive Shanghai apartment building in 2009 to Boston's prolonged Big Dig and the 2010 Gulf oil spill. These avoidable disasters reveal the interdependency of people and machines within systems whose complex behavior was undreamt of by their designers, until it was too late. Petroski shows that even the simplest technology is embedded in cultural and socioeconomic constraints, complications, and contradictions.Failure to imagine the possibility of failure is the most profound mistake engineers can make. Software developers realized this early on and looked outside their young field, to structural engineering, as they sought a historical perspective to help them identify their own potential mistakes. By explaining the interconnectedness of technology and culture and the dangers that can emerge from complexity, Petroski demonstrates that we would all do well to follow their lead. 606 $aSystem failures (Engineering) 606 $aStructural engineering 615 0$aSystem failures (Engineering) 615 0$aStructural engineering. 676 $a620/.00452 700 $aPetroski$b Henry$0314428 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791936703321 996 $aTo forgive design$93690077 997 $aUNINA