I did a quick look through the book cases and found nothing. So I did a
search of Amazon using "engineering disasters" and found many related
books. I must have been a mile off on the title since (based on the
contents) I do believe this is the book I was referring to:
"To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design"
<http://www.amazon.com/Engineer-Human-Failure-Successful-Design/dp/0679734163/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1314284319&sr=1-3>
Yes, bridges and air crashes are covered. The way I recognized the book
was the cover photo of the Tacoma Narrows bridge coming apart.
Chuck Norcutt
On 8/25/2011 10:13 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> I bet that is interesting, from bridges to aircraft, I should think.
>
> Chris
>
> On 25 Aug 2011, at 14:26, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> I'd be hard pressed to locate it but somewhere around here I have a book
>> titled something like "Engineering Disasters". It discusses many such
>> cases and their causes which include, of course, both ignorance and
>> overconfidence.
>
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