建筑为什么会倒塌
Why buildings fall down
Matthys Levy、Mario George Salvadori · 初版 1992 年
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很久以前，世界七大奇迹曾巍然屹立、绚丽夺目，它们看起来似乎会永恒长存，不受时间和重力的侵蚀。如今仅剩下一处尚存——坐落于开罗附近埃及沙漠中的 Khufu 金字塔。其他几座都已坍塌倾覆。现代技术、计算机辅助设计与新型材料，已使结构失效的概率降至几近于零。即便如此，我们仍能从古老以及近期的历史中汲取教训。Why Buildings Fall Down 详细记述了历史上、特别是二十世纪最耐人寻味的那些工程结构事故的来龙去脉与具体成因
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对这类事情感兴趣的朋友，《建筑为何倒塌》（Why Buildings Fall Down）[1] 是一本不错的好书。我大学学的是土木工程，你会惊讶地发现，很多既美观又有趣的大楼，最终之所以长成那样，竟然全是因为工程师被各种现实条件逼出来的……
For anyone interested in this sort of thing "Why Buildings Fall Down" [1] is a good related book. I did civil engineering at university and you'd be surprised how many beautiful and interesting buildings only ended up that way because of constraints forced on the engineers…
《建筑为何倒塌》（Why Buildings Fall Down）这本书记录了大量历史上著名的坍塌事故，而且几乎每一起事故归根结底都是因为缺乏冗余、存在单点故障（single point of failure）。http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down/ 教训……
The book Why Buildings Fall Down is full of significant historical collapses and pretty much every one boils down to a lack of redundancy, a single point of failure. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down/ Lessons…
我真希望作者引用了《建筑为何倒塌》（Why Buildings Fall Down），正是这本书最初让我知道了花旗集团大厦（Citicorp Building）的问题：http://www.amazon.com/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/dp/...
I wish the author had referenced "Why Buildings Fall Down," the book that first made me aware of the Citicorp Building problem: http://www.amazon.com/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/dp/...
……对于那些不是结构工程师、也没从事相关行业或不甚了解的人来说——马里奥·萨尔瓦多利（Mario Salvadori）写的这两本书（现在已是“经典”之作）：《建筑为何屹立：建筑的结构力量》（Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture）与《建筑为何倒塌：结构如何失效》（Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail）
…for those that are not structural engineers or however working in the field or familiar with it - these two (by now "classics") by Mario Salvadori: Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail
……对建筑物/结构为什么能屹立不倒或为什么会倒塌感兴趣，马里奥·萨尔瓦多利有两本极佳的著作：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Salvadori 《建筑为何屹立》（Why Buildings Stand Up，1980）和《建筑为何倒塌》（Why Buildings Fall Down，1992），这两本书通俗易懂、老少皆宜，但内容却丝毫不显肤浅。
…is interested in how/why buildings/structures stand up or collapse, there are a couple great books by Mario Salvadori: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Salvadori Why Buildings Stand Up (1980) and Why Buildings Fall Down (1992) that are elementary enough to be read by anyone, without being at all superficial.
如果你对结构性事故或其他故障感兴趣，我非常喜欢的其他几本书有：马西斯·莱维（Matthys Levy）和马里奥·萨尔瓦多利合著的《建筑为何倒塌：结构如何失效》（Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail），书中广泛记录了各种类型的结构失效历史及其成因；还有《点火！液体火箭推进剂非正式史》（Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants）……
Other books I’ve much enjoyed, when your interest is in structural or other failures: Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail by Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori, a wide ranging history of structural failures of various kinds, and their causes. Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants…