Why Buildings Fall Down
Content
- 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?
- APPENDICES
A Loads
- B Stress and Strain
- c Structural Materials
- D Structural Systems
