A show about engineering failures and disasters. We examine the technical, human and organisational causes of failure, and explore why our decision-making is not nearly as rational as we’d like to think.
http://www.bradyheywood.com.au/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 16 hours 25 minutes
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episode 7: Heart Attacks: Is Less Information More?
What can heart attack diagnosis tell us about engineering failures?
Perhaps not much directly, but it does provide fascinating insight into whether or not more information really leads to better decision making...
episode 6: Corporate Memory Loss: The Malahide Collapse
While the technical cause of failure of the Malahide Viaduct in Ireland was straight-forward, the human factor that collapsed the bridge was a relatively new phenomenon: corporate memory loss.
Detailed article on the collapse can be found at https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/52fa7d_fad1676492ec4e6f82619f16c05d8420.pdf
The Rail Accident Investigation Unit report on the collapse can be found at http://www.raiu.ie/download/pdf/accident_malahide...
episode 5: Organ Donation Rates and Engineering Failures
Organ donation rates provide surprising insight into how we as humans make rational decisions. This podcast looks at this insight and examines how it can play a role in engineering failure, specifically examining the 2007 collapse of the I-35W Highway Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Johnson and Goldstein paper can be found at http://www.dangoldstein.com/papers/JohnsonGoldstein_Defaults_Transplantation2004...
episode 4: The Citicorp Tower Crisis
In 1978 an engineering design error was discovered in the Citicorp Tower in Manhattan. It was so serious that it threatened the tower’s integrity. This is the story of how it was found and the race against time to fix it.
Detailed article can be found at https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/52fa7d_7ab9ff96759b46ef800b65a4ad7282f7.pdf
This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.
episode 3: The Role of Forensic Engineers in Legal Disputes
What is the difference between a forensic structural engineer, as opposed to an ‘ordinary’ structural engineer? And what are the roles of these two very different types of engineers in legal disputes?
Detailed article can be found at https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/52fa7d_7ccbdd24115f4bf1a679a32eb4f6acf6.pdf
This show is produced in collaboration with Wavelength Creative. Visit wavelengthcreative.com for more information.
episode 2: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
The structural collapse of walkways at the Hyatt Regency in 1981 was one of the most devastating collapses in US history. 114 died, over 200 were injured – needing the emergency rooms of 17 hospitals to treat them. We look at the story from the perspective of those involved.
This episode contains descriptions of the injuries sustained in the collapse - listeners may find some of these descriptions upsetting.
Detailed article can be found at https://docs.wixstatic...
episode 1: Welcome to the Brady Heywood Podcast
Welcome to the Brady Heywood podcast – the podcast where we look at engineering failures and disasters.
My name is Sean Brady, and I’m a forensic structural engineer, which means I investigate the causes of engineering failures. And while I usually focus on figuring out the technical cause of a failure, I’m also interested in the role of human factors in these disasters...