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Structural Safety - Theory & Practice (Hardcover)
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Structural Safety - Theory & Practice (Hardcover)
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We all depend on infrastructure for civilised living with the scale
and sophistication of what we build ever increasing. Manifestly we
all have a vested interest in construction being safe, and yet
failures occur. Not infrequently these failures are catastrophic
and accompanied by huge cost and occasional loss of life. Avoiding
such tragedies is every engineer's desire but how to do it is not
straightforward. Nor is it straightforward to respond the question
of: is this project safe? Nonetheless, progress can be made by
laying down guidelines of what makes structures safe and by
studying the pattern of past failures as a basis for predicting
what might go wrong. This assists by drawing on the author's
considerable career experiences of observation, study and practice.
The opening chapter describes the general challenges of making
structures safe taking account of uncertainty and the consequence
of failure, and it also describes the evolution of safety thinking
which nowadays includes issues of worker safety and health.
Subsequent chapters discuss what is meant by both failure and
safety and describe various safety attributes that ought to be
targeted. Even over the last 50 years, structural methodologies for
analysis and design have evolved to reflect the way we collectively
think is the best to assure safe structures. Many of the notions
used are rather abstract and so can best be appreciated by learning
from what has gone wrong in the past. Unfortunately there is no
shortage of precedents. Hence all subsequent chapters covering
human error, material failures, construction failures and fire
follow a general pattern of describing the problem, accompanied by
examples illustrating how failures have arisen in practice. It will
be apparent that common themes recur. Engineered structures protect
societies, so some of the biggest challenges we face are of
designing against the possibility of man-made or environmental
catastrophe. Most readers will be familiar with the occurrence of
natural events such as storm, flood and earthquake and so two
chapters are devoted to man-made and natural hazards. Occupational
health and safety, plus designers' legal obligations to assure
these, are described in another chapter. The final chapter concerns
Avoiding Failure and deals with concepts such as hazards and risk
and the procedures that can be followed to minimise the probability
of serious failure occurring.
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