Tales of the unexpected

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management

Volumn 15, Issue 5-6, 2011, Pages 387-399

  Elms, David ^a   Brown, Colin B ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c Oregon State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Engineering; Failure; Model; Philosophy; Resilience; Risk; Safety; Structure; Surprise

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857328846     PISSN: 14668297     EISSN: 17415241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJRAM.2011.043696     Document Type: Article

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