• Menu
    • ASME
    The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
    NV_PrintBook_50Rules22102024 - NV_PrintBook_ 50RulesforPreventingEngineeringFailures has been added to your cart.
    View Cart
    Books

    NV_PrintBook_ 50RulesforPreventingEngineeringFailures

    B31

    This Standard was last reviewed and reaffirmed in {{activeProduct.ReaffirmationYear}}. Therefore this version remains in effect.

    {{activeProduct.Title}}
    {{ onlyYear }}
    {{ onlyFormat }}
    This product is offered through an ASME partner.
    Please complete your transaction through their site
    See Product
    {{ errorMessage }}

    Final invoices will include applicable sales and use tax.

    Print or Share

    Book Options

    • Format
      Availability
      Order No.
      Price
      List Price
      Member Price
    • Print Book
      Ships in 3-5 Days
      NV_PrintBook_50Rules22102024
      $159
      $159
      $159
      Select
      Selected
    • Print Book
      Sold Out
      862RPE
      $60
      $60
      $60
      Select
      Selected

    Test

    test to see if staging task is created

    Description
    Description
    Package Items
    Quantity Item
    {{ package.Quantity }} {{ package.Title }} {{ package.Title }}

    By Clifford Matthews

    The problem with engineering failures is they keep on happening. There’s nothing new about them; most have happened before and their reasons are well understood.

    The difficulty is you arrive late to the party. You’re picking up other peoples’ work; mistakes have already been made in design, purchasing, operation and everywhere else, leaving you the legacy to sort out. You do your best but failures happen, the result of historical reasons and decisions.

    Why not kill off failure-inducing rationale and decisions before they cause the problem? You’ll reduce those failures that are well understood but still happen. You’d need rules to work to, and foresight to broaden your viewpoint of where engineering failures are born. There’s lots to consider:

    Economics Factory tests
    Attitude Design for inspection
    Ethics Material choices
    Culture Benchmarking
    Design life Operator-proofing
    Purchasing Equipment ageing
    Multiple events Human interactions

    And many more.

    Let’s shrink them down to the most important 50? Those with superlative general application, squeeze each to a few pages and call them something snappy like …Rules of Thumb? It’s a massive call.

    Our 50 rules are drawn from real failures and disasters taking you straight to the principles that are proven failure-causes. Don’t get involved in engineering design, specification, projects or purchasing until you’ve checked out the 50 rules in this book. They could prevent future failures.
     

    Get papers online in the ASME Digital Collection

    Find eBooks, journals, and proceedings papers
    Subscribe to RSS feeds
    Sign up for content alerts
    View calls for papers
    Visit Digital Collection

    Sorry, we only have available spots for this course. Would you like to add those to your cart?

    No, Do Not Add to Cart Yes, Add to Cart

    The price of yearly membership depends on a number of factors, so final price will be calculated during checkout.

    Continue Browsing View Cart

    You are now leaving ASME.org

    Continue