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040			_aNISER LIBRARY _cNISER LIBRARY
041			_aEnglish
082			_a62-11 _bPET-T
100			_aPetroski, Henry
245			_aTo engineer is human: _bthe role of failure in successful design
260			_aNew York: _bVintage Books, _c1992
300			_aix, 251p. _bPbk
504			_aContents 1. Being human 2. Falling down is part of growing up 3. Lessons from play; Lessons from life appendix: “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,” by Oliver Wendell Holms 4. Engineering as hypothesis 5. Success is foreseeing failure 6. Design is getting from here to there 7. Design as revision 8. Accidents waiting to happen 9. Safety in numbers 10. When cracks become breakthroughs 11. Of bus frames and knife blades 12. Interlude: the success story of the crystal palace 13. The ups and downs of bridges 14. Forensic engineering and engineering fiction 15. From slide rule to computer: forgetting how it used to be done 16. Connoisseurs of chaos 17. The limits of design Afterword Bibliography Index
520			_aHow did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s – the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Henry Petroski, author of the acclaimed The Pencil, examines in this engaging, wonderfully literate book. More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life.
650			_aENGINEERING DESIGN
650			_aSYSTEM FAILURES (ENGINEERING)
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