Why Buildings Fall Down : : how Structures Fail

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Includes index.
The first structural failure -- Miracle on thirty-fourth street -- Will the Pantheon stand up forever -- For lack of redundancy -- Big bangs -- The day the earth shook -- Galloping Gertie -- When metals tire -- Thruways to eternity -- The weaknesses of mother earth -- Valley of tears -- The house of cards -- Structural dermatology -- Old-age death -- The worst structural disaster in the United States -- The politics of destruction -- The structure of the law -- Conclusion: can we prevent future failures?

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structural failures of buildings submitted by edwardvielmetti on June 19, 2011, 12:16am "Why Buildings Fall Down" iwhich focuses on things that don't get talked about all that often - structural failures of buildings. If you can get past a bit of well-illustrated mechanical engineering technical details, it's a terrific tale of how a cascade of seemingly minor mistakes in design, workmanship, engineering and materials can take a perfectly reasonable concept and produce a disaster.

This book was recommended to me by a network engineer who said it helped him think about how computer networks fail under stress.