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?