Catastrophe!: Failure and Success in Engineering (Mysteries of Science) - Softcover

Bortz, Fred

 
9780716765394: Catastrophe!: Failure and Success in Engineering (Mysteries of Science)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 071676539X ISBN 13: 9780716765394
Verlag: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Why do buildings and bridges fall down? Why do so many planes crash? What makes the lights go out in millions of homes during a blackout? Why can nuclear energy be so dangerous? What made the space shuttle Challenger explode? This book provides the answers. Other examples covered include: the collapse of a walkway suspended several floors above a hotel-lobby; an airplane crash into a mountainside; and a nuclear-power-plant accident. In each instance, the author asks what engineers can learn from the catastrophe and how they can prevent it happening again.

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Why do buildings and bridges fall down? Why do so many planes crash? What makes the lights go out in millions of homes during a blackout? Why can nuclear energy be so dangerous? What made the space shuttle Challenger explode? This book provides the answers. Other examples covered include: the collapse of a walkway suspended several floors above a hotel-lobby; an airplane crash into a mountainside; and a nuclear-power-plant accident. In each instance, the author asks what engineers can learn from the catastrophe and how they can prevent it happening again.

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Verlag
W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
071676539X
ISBN 13 
9780716765394
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
80
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