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Collapse: When Buildings Fall Down

Phillip Wearne

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Description:What happens when the very ground beneath your feet gives way? In Collapse, Phillip Wearne tells the stories behind the worst structural engineering disasters of the last fifty years and the forensic engineers who investigated their causes. Using expert testimonies from scientific investigators, Wearne studies eleven high-profile cases of catastrophic structural collapse, from The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City and the Hartford Civic Center in Connecticut to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Sometimes if these disasters have a single cause, it is a small flaw that spawns a chain reaction--for instance, the minuscule flaw in the metal of one eyebar of the Point Pleasant Bridge on the Ohio River. Usually, though, and more alarmingly, the causes are human. Mistakes, misunderstandings, incompetence, greed, and corruption: every facet of human failing is represented in these structural collapses.This makes the investigation of these failures--by agencies like the Failure Analysis Associates, who can have close to two-thousand investigations ongoing at any one time--dirty and dangerous business. Wearne's case study takes us deep inside the ever-growing industry of forensic engineering, revealing a group of professionals dedicated to determining the cause of a collapse at any cost, while learning and applying valuable lessons from each failure.Provocative and well-written, Collapse is essential for deepening our understanding of--and readiness for--catastrophe.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Collapse: When Buildings Fall Down. To get started finding Collapse: When Buildings Fall Down, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: What happens when the very ground beneath your feet gives way? In Collapse, Phillip Wearne tells the stories behind the worst structural engineering disasters of the last fifty years and the forensic engineers who investigated their causes. Using expert testimonies from scientific investigators, Wearne studies eleven high-profile cases of catastrophic structural collapse, from The Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City and the Hartford Civic Center in Connecticut to the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Sometimes if these disasters have a single cause, it is a small flaw that spawns a chain reaction--for instance, the minuscule flaw in the metal of one eyebar of the Point Pleasant Bridge on the Ohio River. Usually, though, and more alarmingly, the causes are human. Mistakes, misunderstandings, incompetence, greed, and corruption: every facet of human failing is represented in these structural collapses.This makes the investigation of these failures--by agencies like the Failure Analysis Associates, who can have close to two-thousand investigations ongoing at any one time--dirty and dangerous business. Wearne's case study takes us deep inside the ever-growing industry of forensic engineering, revealing a group of professionals dedicated to determining the cause of a collapse at any cost, while learning and applying valuable lessons from each failure.Provocative and well-written, Collapse is essential for deepening our understanding of--and readiness for--catastrophe.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Collapse: When Buildings Fall Down. To get started finding Collapse: When Buildings Fall Down, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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