Extra Information about Forensic Structural Engineering
Course subject(s)
6. Debriefing per case
If you are interested in learning more about Forensic Structural Engineering, you can find a list of sources below.
Books:
- Forensic Engineering (Carper et al. 1989)
- Learning from construction failures (Campbell et al. 2001)
- Why buildings fall down? (Levy and Salvadori 2002)
- Beyond failure: forensic case studies for civil engineers (Delatte 2009)
- Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook (Ratay et al. 2010)
- Guidelines for Forensic Engineering Practices (Kardon et al. 2012)
Conference papers:
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IABSE, the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, provides free access to a number of papers related to forensic engineering. One of them is related to the case of the B-tower as was discussed in module 3.
Scientific Journals:
- Forensic Engineering (ICE)
- Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities (ASCE)
Interesting websites:
- www.structural-safety.org
- http://www.bridgeforum.org/dir/collapse/
- http://db.concretecoalition.org
- https://failures.wikispaces.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures
Youtube Videos:
- use the keywords ‘disasters’ , ‘seconds from disasters’ or ‘structural failures’
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