Unpredictability, frictions and order

Åke E. Andersson

pp. 280-290

in: Nordal Åkerman (ed), The necessity of friction, Heidelberg, Physica, 1993

Abstract

Houses are normally safe, stable and predictable. In an earthquake the falling down of the houses is therefore judged to be a catastrophy. But this is physically nothing to be taken for granted, at least not for the theoretically inclined.