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All books are shelved in the Engineering and Science Library, bottom floor (4s) unless noted otherwise. Books with REF preceding the call number are Reference Books and are shelved on the first floor (one floor above ground).

Handbooks

• When technology fails: significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the twentieth century
  REF TA169.5 .W44 1994
• Handbook of case histories in failure analysis
  TA169.5 .H36 1992
• Beyond failure : forensic case studies for civil engineers
  TA219 . D45 2009
• Failure analysis case studies II: a sourcebook of case studies selected from the pages of Engineering failure analysis 1997-1999
• Forensic structural engineering handbook

Encyclopaedias

• Encyclopaedia Britannica
  Print: REF AE5 .E363 1992 (Engineering and Science Library)
• McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science & technology
  REF Q121 .M3 2007 (Engineering and Science Library)

Bibliography of Disasters

• From the Titanic to the Challenger : an annotated bibliography on technological failures of the twentieth century / Susan Davis Herring.
  Z5853 .S94 H47 1989 (Stauffer)
• Disaster technology : an annotated bibliography / Diana H. Manning
  Z5772 .M35 1976 (Stauffer)

Bombs and Buildings

• Lessons from the Oklahoma City bombing: defensive design techniques
  TH1097 .H56 1997

Bridges

• In the wake of Tacoma: suspension bridges and the quest for aerodynamic stability
  TG400 .S38 2001
• Beloeil: Cover title. "Written in June 1964 ... on the one-hundredth anniversary of the Beloeil Bridge disaster, by Lavallee, Omer. Published by the Canadian Railroad Historical Association, Montral, 1965
  F5449 .B45 L3 (Stauffer library)
• Report and Plans also report on design of Quebec bridge
  TG27 .Q3 A5 2 vols.
• Why buildings fall down : how structures fail / Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori ; illustrations by Kevin Woest.
  TH441 .L48 1992 (Education Library, Art LIbrary)
  Chapter 9 - Schoharie Creek Bridge, NY (1987)

Building Failures

• Construction failure / Jacob Feld and Kenneth L. Carper
  TH441 .F43 1997
• Report of the Commissioner Inquiry, Station Square Development, Burnaby, British Columbia
  TH441 .C55 1988t

Disasters

• Modern marvels : Engineering disasters 13 [videorecording)
  TA495 .E54 2004 DVD
• More engineering disasters [videorecording]
  TA169.5 .M67 2005 DVD
• Man-made catastrophes : from the burning of Rome to the Lockerbie crash / Lee Davis
  D24 .D38 2002 (Education Library - Reference)
  D24 .D38 1991 (Education Library - Stacks)
• Acts of God : the unnatural history of natural disaster in America / Ted Steinberg
  GB5007 .S74 2000

Earthquakes

• Reconnaissance report on damage to steel building structures observed from the 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu (Hanshin/Awaji) earthquake. (Main volume in Japanese)
  QE537.2.J3 H964 1995t
• The Northridge earthquake, January 17th, 1994 : disaster reconnaissance, March 26th to March 31st, 1994.
  MICROLOG: 97-01801 (Stauffer)

Engineering Design and System Failures

• To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design / Henry Petroski
  TA174 .P474 1985
• Design paradigms : case histories of error and judgment in engineering / Henry Petroski
  TA174 .P473 1994
• Invention by design : how engineers get from thought to thing / Henry Petroski
  TA174 .P4735 1996

Engineering Ethics

• Engineering ethics: an industrial perspective

Materials - Fatigue

• Failure analysis of engineering materials / Charlie R. Brooks, Ashok Choudhury
  TA409 .B775 2002

Nuclear Accidents

• Idaho Falls - the untold story of America's First Nuclear Accident
  TK1345.12 M38 2003
• Chernobyl record : the definitive history of the Chernobyl catastrophe TK1362.U38 M68 2000
• The Three Mile Island nuclear accident : lessons and implications Q11 .N5 v.365

Ocean Ranger

• But who cares now? : the tragedy of the Ocean Ranger / Douglas House
  TN871.3 .H68 1987
• Report / Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger Marine Disaster (Canada)
  TN871.3 .R69 1984

System Failures

• Engineering catastrophes : causes and effects of major accidents / John Lancaster
  TA169.5 .L36 2000t
• Handbook of case histories in failure analysis
  TA169.5 H36

Spacecraft

• The Challenger launch decision : risky technology, culture and deviance at NASA / Diane Vaughan
  TL867 .C467 1996t
• "A major malfunction" [multimedia] : the story behind the space shuttle Challenger disaster / produced, written, & directed by Mark Maier.
  TL867 .M34 1992t
• Prescription for disaster: from the glory of Apollo to the betrayal of the shuttle / Joseph J. Trento
  TL789.8.U5 T74 1987

Structural Failures - Investigations

• Investigation of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkways collapse.
  TA435 .U58 no.143

Structural Failures

• Geomechanics of Failures
• Modern marvels : Engineering disasters 13 [videorecording]
  TA495 .E54 2004 DVD (ground floor)
• Construction disasters : design failures, causes, and prevention/Ross, Steven
  TA656 .R67 1984
• Design and construction failures : lessons from forensic investigations / Dov Kaminetzky
  TA656 .K36 1991
• Failures in civil engineering : structural, foundation, and geoenvironmental case studies / prepared by the Education Committee of the Technical Council on Forensic Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Robin Shepherd and J. David Frost.
  TA656 .F35 1995
• Progressive collapse of structures
  TA656 .S737 2009

Technology

• Normal accidents: living with high-risk technologies / Perrow, C.
  Princeton University Press.
  T54 .P47 1984
• New technology and human error / edited by Jens Rasmussen, Keith Duncan, and Jacques Leplat
  T55 .N463 1987t
• When technology fails : significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the twentieth century / edited by Neil Schlager ; foreword by Henry Petroski.
  REF TA169.5 .W44 1994 (Engineering and Science Library, 1st floor, level 5)
• Acceptable risks : politics, policy, and risky technologies / C.F. Larry Heimann
  T174.5 .H44 1997
• Catastrophes and conflicts : scientific approaches to their control / Klaus Gottstein
  T174.5 .G68 1999
• Inviting disaster: lessons from the edge of technology / Chiles, James R. - An inside look at catastrophes and why they happen.
  T174.5 .C57 2001
• Lethal arrogance : human fallibility and dangerous technologies / Lloyd J. Dumas
  T174.5 .D86 1999

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