Why Structures Fail: Challenges to Engineering Design

[Alferd_Packer]

The exhibition is little more than a few poster boards in the atrium of the college's Morris R. Cohen Library, but it drives home a simple message that resonates all the more in light of recent high-profile accidents at New York's construction sites: Structures fail, and the engineer's job isn't so much to stop the failures as it is to plan around them.

source (http://www.nysun.com/arts/design-challenge-fend-off-disaster/82330/)

Do you think any truthers will go see it?

more (http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/advancement/pr/Why-Structures-Fail-Engineering-Exhibit.cfm)


Nahhhh

[Grizzly Bear]

“The task of the engineer is not to make a structure failure-proof, but to anticipate the ways in which it might fail,” Professor Mendelsohn added. “Having done so, he or she must then incorporate back-up systems into the design so as to minimize loss, destruction and injury.”

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