Where can I find information on engineering failures? Im looking for examples of structural failures or of other types of disaster?
Take time to plan the keywords you are going to use in your search. What type of engineering disaster are you interested in a bridge collapse – an offshore catastrophe – a railway accident – an aircraft crash a structural failure a disaster at sea? As well as your main keywords think about associated terms such as faults, defects, negligence, engineering failures etc. Map out a list of alternative terms that you want to search for and input some of these terms into the Library’s SUPrimo search service. Also plan out the type of documents and information sources that you think may be relevant to your literature review books written about the disaster, general works on engineering failures with case studies that include the incident you are interested in, eyewitness accounts, press reports and newspaper material, journal articles in professional and academic engineering journals, government committees of enquiry, legislation at the time and any subsequent changes to improve safety proced
