Rational accidents : reckoning with catastrophic technologies

Rational accidents : reckoning with catastrophic technologies / John Downer.

"There are limits to what engineers can know, and this means that not every technological failure can be anticipated or avoided. The book explores this observation in the context of technologies that cannot be allowed to fail, e.g., jetliners"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Downer, John (John R.) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
Series:Inside technology.
Subjects:
Reliability (Engineering)
Aircraft accidents > Prevention.
Risk assessment.
Industrial safety.
risk assessment.
occupational safety.
Aircraft accidents > Prevention
Industrial safety
Risk assessment
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Table of Contents:
  • Catastrophic Technologies: The Rise of Reliability as a Variable of Consequence
  • Finitism and Failure: One the Logical Implausibility of Ultrahigh Reliability
  • The Aviation Paradox: On the Impossible Reliability of Jetliners
  • Organizing Aviation Safety: Reliability Requirements and Logics
  • When the Chick Hits the Fan: Testing and the Problem of Relevance
  • The Sum of All Parts: Modeling Reliability with Redundancy
  • Rational Accidents: On Finitism's Catastrophic Implications
  • Paradox Resolved: Transcending the Limits of Tests and Models
  • Design Stability Revisited: Context, Caveats, Composites, and Concorde
  • Safety Costs: The Structural Foundations of Ultrareliable Design
  • Incentives in Action: On Deficient 737s and Neglected Survivability
  • Burdens of Proof: The Hidden Costs of Positivism
  • The Myth of Mastery: On the Underappreciated Limits of Technological Ambition
  • Fukushima Revisited: Reaping the Whirlwinds of Certainty

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