Learning from construction failures
Subtitle: applied forensic engineering
By: edited by Peter Campbell.
Contributors: Campbell, Peter, 1949-
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Building failures.; Building failures -- Investigation.; Forensic engineering.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: The historical setting; title: 1 Forensic engineering - the perspective from N.America; title: Kenneth L. Carper; title: 2 Learning from history; title: Lawrance Hurst; title: 3 Some lessons from the past; title: Poul Beckmann; title: Application of principles; title: 4 Propping up Pisa; title: John Burland; title: 5 Applying lessons from failures to management and design; title: Jonathan G.M. Wood; title: 6 Learning from failures; title: J C. Chapman; title: Insurance and legal perspectives; title: 7 Risk management from the lawyer's point of view; title: Diana Holtham; title: 8 Risk management from the lawyer's point of view -; title: comments on US practice; title: Robert A. Rubin and Dana Wordes; title: 9 The technical investigation of failure -; title: a marine industry perspective; title: J S. Carlton and JR Maguire; title: 10 The role of risk assessment in failure investigations; title: S. B. Tietz; title: Examples and case studies; title: 11 Failures and vulnerabilities of reservoir control structures; title: Jack Lewin; title: 12 Diverse engineering failures; title: Alexander Kennaway; title: 13 Reinforced aircrete slabs; title: Satish Desai; title: 14 Lessons learned from the Oklahoma City bombing; title: W.Gene Corley; title: 15 Failures of masts and towers; title: Brian W Smith; title: 16 Precast concrete cladding and structural integrity; title: J.NJA. Vambersky and R Sagel; title: Index.