`The Hyatt Horror': Failure and responsibility in American engineering

Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 62-66

  Pfatteicher, Sarah K A ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

ENGINEERING ETHICS; WALKWAYS;

FOOTBRIDGES;

EID: 0033729467     PISSN: 08873828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0887-3828(2000)14:2(62)     Document Type: Article

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