[PDF] Why Buildings Fall Down How Structures Fail

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Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori are the editors of “Why Buildings Fall Down How Structures Fail”.

Most important Contents of “Why Buildings Fall Down How Structures Fail”

– The First Structural Failure.

– Miracle on Thirty-fourth Road.

– Will the Pantheon Stand Up Ceaselessly?

– For Lack of Redundancy.

– Huge Bangs.

– The Day the Earth Shook.

– Galloping Gertie.

– When Metals Tire.

– Thruways to Eternity.

– The Weaknesses of Mom Earth.

– Valley of Tears.

– The Home of Playing cards.

– Structural Dermatology.

– Outdated-Age Dying.

– The Worst Structural Catastrophe in the USA.

– The Politics of Destruction.

– The Construction of the Regulation.

– Conclusion: Can We Stop Future Failures?

Preface to “Why Buildings Fall Down How Structures Fail” eBook

It appeared nearly unavoidable that having written a e book entitled Why Buildings Stand Up, I must be pushed by my associates (and my splendidly pleasant editor, Edwin Barber) to write down one other calledwhat else?

Why Buildings Fall Down. I’ve in the end given in to the temptation of explaining structural failures in lay language,

a easy however thrilling activity, however solely as a result of the coauthor of one other of my books, Matthys Levy, a grasp of structural design, has enthusiastically accepted to write down it with me.

He and I can apply eighty-five years of design and instructing expertise, and sixty of investigations into structural failures, to the job of serving to us relieve the fears of the uninitiated,

whereas taking the reader on an fascinating and, we hope, entertaining journey that can make the reader see buildings as by no means earlier than: with a transparent understanding of why they get up and why, sure, however as soon as in a blue moon, they fall down.

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Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail PDF

Author(s): Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori, Kevin Woest

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Year: 1994

ISBN: 039331152X

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