Levy, Matthys

Why buildings fall down : how structures fail / Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori - New York W.W. Norton & Company, 2002. - 346 p.

Include Index

346 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents: 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 --
Terror from the sky --
Conclusion : can we prevent future failures?

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Buildings
Building failures
Structural failures

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