Stuctural failures
Stuctural failures
(OP)
I wonder any of you know of a book which reviews the causes of a variety of structural failures that happened in the past. I just would like to read about such occurrences for interest …. Not necessarily to reduce the possibility of making any errors or omissions, etc. in my practice. I’m basically retired now). I did see such a book but cannot remember the title. Accounts in the mass media do not do it for me. The story's are inevitably fraught with unqualified opinions, speculations, exaggerations etc. Thanks for your help.






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"In this book, more than two dozen of the worst disasters of the past half century are reported in detail using words (and often pictures) that originally appeared in the pages of Engineering News Record."
The half century that is referred to is from the Long Beach Earthquake, 1933 to Hyatt Walkway Collapse, 1981.
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Victor Bignell (Editor), Joyce Fortune (Editor)
has a very good account of the West Gate Bridge collapse over the river Yarrah, Australia, among other failures.
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1. CTV building collapse
2. Report of the Structural Performance of the Hotel Grand Chancellor
3. Steel Building Damage from the Christchurch Earthquake
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Design and Construction Failures: Lessons from Forensic Investigations by Dov Kaminetsky.
[link Link to Amazon]http://www.amazon.com/Design-Construction-Failures...[/link]
"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us." -WSC
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They are both well written and approachable by non-engineers in a narrative sort of way yet very complete and technical.
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Kieran
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I have read some of it already. It is a great read, and very enlightening. It sure got my attention.
Every structural engineer from the beginner to the guys nearing retirement (like me LOL) should read it. You could be surprised by the revelation on how innocently you could make a serious mistake.
I got the book from the public library.....JWR.