Learning from construction failures : applied forensic engineering /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Latheronwheel, Caithness, Scotland :
Whittles,
2001.
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Table of Contents:
- The historical setting : Forensic engineering, the perspective from N. America / Kenneth L. Carper
- Learning from history / Lawrance Hurst
- Some lessons from the past / Poul Beckmann
- Applications of principles : Propping up Pisa / John Burland
- Applying lessons from failures to management and design / Jonathan G.M. Wood
- Learning from failures / J.C. Chapman
- Insurance and legal perspectives : Risk management from the lawyer's point of view / Diana Holtham
- Risk management from the lawyer's point of view, comments on US practice / Robert A. Rubin and Dana Wordes
- The technical investigation of failure, a marine industry perspective / J.S. Carlton and J.R. Maguire
- The role of risk assessment in failure investigations / S.B. Tietz
- Examples and case studies : Failures and vulnerabilities of reservoir control structures / Jack Lewin
- Diverse engineering failures / Alexander Kennaway
- Reinforced aircrete slabs / Satish Desai
- Lessons learned from the Oklahoma City Bombing / W. Gene Corley
- Failures of masts and towers / Brian W. Smith
- Precast concrete cladding and structural integrity / J.N.J.A. Vambersky and R. Sagel.