To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design
Petroski, Henry
To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design - New York Vintage books 1992 - ix,251p.
Contents:
1.Being Human 1
2. Falling Down is Part of Growing up 11
3. Lessons From Play; Lessons From Life Appendix: "The Deacon's Masterpiece," / Oliver Wendell Holmes 35
4. Engineering as Hypothesis 40
5. Success is Foreseeing Failure 53
6. Design is Getting From Here to There 64
7. Design as Revision 75
8. Accidents Waiting to Happen 85
9. Safety in Numbers 98
10. When Cracks Become Breakthroughs 107
11. Of Bus Frames and Knife Blades 122
12. Interlude: The Success Story of the Crystal Palace 136
13. The Ups and Downs of Bridges 158
14. Forensic Engineering and Engineering Fiction 172
15. From Slide Rule to Computer: Forgetting How it Used to be Done 189
16. Connoisseurs of Chaos 204
17. The Limits of Design 216
Afterword 229
Bibliography 233
Index 245
9780679734161
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To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design - New York Vintage books 1992 - ix,251p.
Contents:
1.Being Human 1
2. Falling Down is Part of Growing up 11
3. Lessons From Play; Lessons From Life Appendix: "The Deacon's Masterpiece," / Oliver Wendell Holmes 35
4. Engineering as Hypothesis 40
5. Success is Foreseeing Failure 53
6. Design is Getting From Here to There 64
7. Design as Revision 75
8. Accidents Waiting to Happen 85
9. Safety in Numbers 98
10. When Cracks Become Breakthroughs 107
11. Of Bus Frames and Knife Blades 122
12. Interlude: The Success Story of the Crystal Palace 136
13. The Ups and Downs of Bridges 158
14. Forensic Engineering and Engineering Fiction 172
15. From Slide Rule to Computer: Forgetting How it Used to be Done 189
16. Connoisseurs of Chaos 204
17. The Limits of Design 216
Afterword 229
Bibliography 233
Index 245
9780679734161
745.2 / PET