Every page in the KEVOS library tagged Failure Analysis. 7 pages.
Seven formal investigations between 1979 and 2010 that changed engineering practice across industries. In every one, the physical mechanism was known or knowable beforehand.
Two celebrated bridges and one destroyed one. The collapse taught the profession more than either success, and the mechanism is still widely taught wrongly.
Three projects, three constraints, one lesson: at civil scale the hard engineering is in measurement, power distribution and load path, not in the visible structure.
Four milestones from a two-second rocket flight to a lunar landing, and one fatigue failure that changed how every aircraft since has been certified.
Four milestones in the first industry assembled deliberately out of laboratory physics, and the first to design against a transmission medium that could not be inspected.
Four milestones in which builders working without any theory of statics arrived, by observation and by failure, at a structural system of remarkable efficiency.
Three milestones in which a ship stopped being a shaped assembly of timbers and became a designed structure with a calculated stress distribution.