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:

  • 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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