Thread: Random Thought Thread, aka The RTT (**possible spoilers**)
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Old 04-19-13, 09:03 AM
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For those of you with a casual interest in failure modes of structures etc, I can recommend just about any of the books by Henry Petroski. Very readable analysis of various design/process failures throughout history presented at a layman's level.
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