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Publisher | : Benchmark Education Company |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Blizzards |
ISBN | : 1450927815 |
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Readers learn about the causes and effects of hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards.
Author | : George Leonard Vose |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Bridges |
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Author | : Thomas Fisher |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2012-11-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1136286136 |
Download Designing To Avoid Disaster Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing prices, all stem from what author Thomas Fisher calls fracture-critical design. This is design in which structures and systems have so little redundancy and so much interconnectedness and misguided efficiency that they fail completely if any one part does not perform as intended. If we, as architects, planners, engineers, and citizens are to predict and prepare for the next disaster, we need to recognize this error in our thinking and to understand how design thinking provides us with a way to anticipate unintended failures and increase the resiliency of the world in which we live. In Designing to Avoid Disaster, the author discusses the context and cultural assumptions that have led to a number of disasters worldwide, describing the nature of fracture-critical design and why it has become so prevalent. He traces the impact of fracture-critical thinking on everything from our economy and politics to our educational and infrastructure systems to the communities, buildings, and products we inhabit and use everyday. And he shows how the natural environment and human population itself have both begun to move on a path toward a fracture-critical collapse that we need to do everything possible to avoid. We designed our way to such disasters and we can design our way out of them, with a number of possible solutions that Fisher provides.
Author | : Michael Sandler |
Publisher | : Benchmark Education Company |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Blizzards |
ISBN | : 1450907350 |
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Readers learn about the causes and effects of hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards.
Author | : Richard S. Hobbs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
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In 1940, just months after opening, "Galloping Gertie" captured worldwide attention when it plunged to a watery grave. Richard Hobbs recounts the catastrophe and its aftermath, including the harrowing escapes, the subsequent investigation, the scandals, and the triumph of the replacement spans.
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Publisher | : AASHTO |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1560514299 |
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Author | : Nikole Brooks Bethea |
Publisher | : Cherry Lake |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2014-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1631377132 |
Download The Science of a Bridge Collapse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book discusses the science behind bridge collapses and their effects. The chapters examine historical bridge collapses, explain how bridges are designed and built, and show how scientists and engineers are working to prevent future collapses. Diagrams, charts, and photos provide opportunities to evaluate and understand the scientific concepts involved.
Author | : Robin Lumley |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0752499602 |
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On Sunday, 28 December 1879, the 5.27 mail and passenger train from Burntisland to Dundee went out across the world's longest bridge on a black, fierce night, only to be dashed to pieces in the River Tay as the bridge collapsed during one of the worst storms in Scottish history. The Tay Bridge Disaster remains to this day the worst catastrophic failure of a civil engineering structure in Britain – the land equivalent of the Titanic sinking. In this book, author Robin Lumley brings a poignant human perspective to the fateful night in 1879 that shook Britain and the world of engineering to their core and sent a nation into mourning for the seventy-five souls lost to the dark, freezing waters of the River Tay. Packed full of personal tales and offering technical appendices for those who wish to further their specialised knowledge, Tay Bridge Disaster: The People's Story is a must-read for anyone interested in this tragic event in Scottish and British history.
Author | : George Leonard Vose |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781359282064 |
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Author | : Benchmark Education Co., LLC Staff |
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Release | : 2015-01-01 |
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ISBN | : 9781502164131 |
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