Engineering disaster is simply referred to those disasters when it is caused by an
engineering failure like –
(a) Design flaws or materials failures
(b) Insufficient knowledge or underestimations
(c) Carelessness or negligence
(d) All the above.

1 Answer

Answer :

(d) All the above.

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