Designing to avoid disaster : the nature of fracture-critical design / / Thomas Fisher
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| Autore: |
Fisher Thomas <1953-, >
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| Titolo: |
Designing to avoid disaster : the nature of fracture-critical design / / Thomas Fisher
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 620.8/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Design - Methodology |
| Safety factor in engineering | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-246) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. I. The nature of fracture-critical design -- pt. II. How fracture-critical design affects our lives -- pt. III. Designing to avoid future disasters. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Recent 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Designing to avoid disaster |
| ISBN: | 1-283-86206-9 |
| 1-136-28614-4 | |
| 0-203-11329-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463015603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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