Beyond failure [[electronic resource] ] : forensic case studies for civil engineers / / Norbert J. Delatte, Jr |
Autore | Delatte Norbert J |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reston, VA, : ASCE Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
Disciplina | 624.1/71 |
Soggetto topico |
Forensic engineering
System failures (Engineering) Civil engineering Structural failures - Investigation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-7844-7228-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""1 Why Case Studies?""; ""Organization of This Book""; ""Notes to the Student""; ""Sources for Case Materials""; ""2 Statics and Dynamics""; ""Hyatt Regency Walkway""; ""Tacoma Narrows Bridge""; ""Aircraft Impacts""; ""Other Cases""; ""3 Mechanics of Materials""; ""Quebec Bridge""; ""Point Pleasant Bridge Collapse""; ""Comet Jet Aircraft Crashes""; ""Other Cases""; ""4 Structural Analysis""; ""Agricultural Product Warehouse Failures""; ""Ronan Point""; ""L'Ambiance Plaza Collapse""; ""Cleveland Lift-Slab Parking Garage""; ""Kemper Arena""
""Other Cases""""5 Reinforced Concrete Structures""; ""Air Force Warehouse Shear Failures""; ""2000 Commonwealth Avenue""; ""Skyline Plaza in Bailey's Crossroads""; ""Harbour Cay Condominium""; ""Bombing of the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building""; ""The Pentagon Attack""; ""Other Cases""; ""6 Steel Structures""; ""Hartford Civic Center Stadium Collapse""; ""Mianus River Bridge Collapse""; ""Cold-Formed Steel Beam Construction Failure""; ""The World Trade Center Attacks""; ""Pittsburgh Convention Center Expansion Joint Failure""; ""Minneapolis I-35W Bridge Collapse""; ""Other Cases"" ""7 Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering, and Foundations""""Teton Dam""; ""Vaiont Dam Reservoir Slope Stability Failure""; ""The Transcona and Fargo Grain Elevators""; ""Other Cases""; ""8 Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics""; ""Johnstown Flood""; ""Malpasset Dam""; ""Schoharie Creek Bridge""; ""New Orleans Hurricane Katrina Levee Failures""; ""Other Cases""; ""9 Construction Materials""; ""Austin Concrete Dam Failure""; ""Liberty Ship Hull Failures""; ""Willow Island Cooling Tower Collapse""; ""Boston's Big Dig Tunnel Collapse""; ""High-Alumina Cement""; ""Other Cases"" ""10 Management, Ethics, and Professional Issues""""Citicorp Tower""; ""Space Shuttle Challenger""; ""Sampoong Superstore, Korea""; ""Misuse of the Professional Engineer License""; ""Property Loss Investigations""; ""APPENDIX A: Notes to the Professor""; ""APPENDIX B: The ASCE Code of Ethics""; ""APPENDIX C: Some Cases on Video and DVD""; ""REFERENCES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""H""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""ABOUT THE AUTHOR"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458197703321 |
Delatte Norbert J | ||
Reston, VA, : ASCE Press, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Forensic engineering [[electronic resource] ] : proceedings of the 4th congress, October 6-9, 2006, Cleveland, Ohio / / sponsored by Technical Council on Forensic Engineering (TCFE) of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Paul A. Bosela, Norbert J. Delatte |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reston, VA, : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (657 p.) |
Disciplina | 624.1/71 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
BoselaPaul A
DelatteNorbert J |
Soggetto topico |
Structural failures - Investigation
Forensic engineering |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-7844-7156-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Forensic Engineering Practice (Practitioner Track)""; ""Validity and Reliability of Forensic Engineering Methods and Processes""; ""Learning from the Past Experiences of Practicing Engineers""; ""Benchmarking Forensic Engineering Practice�A Philosophical Discussion""; ""Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and Natural Hazards I""; ""Returning Buildings Damaged by Hurricanes or Earthquakes to Pre-Damage Condition""; ""Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina""; ""Strategies for Damage Assessments and Emergency Response""; ""Residential Investigations (Practitioner Track)""
""Investigation into Brick Masonry and Concrete Foundation Wall Distress of a Single-Family Residence""""Forensic Investigation of a Patio Failure""; ""The Leaking Basement Epidemic�Causes, Cures and Consequences""; ""Structures I""; ""John Hancock Center Scaffold Collapse""; ""Nonlinear Static Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Residential Structure with Non-Fixed Connections""; ""Case Study of Stone Veneer Failure""; ""Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental""; ""Risk Assessment and Treatment in Slope Stability Forensic Engineering"" ""An Invisible Menace�The Impact of Pyrite Induced Expansive Forces on Long-Term Building Failure: A Case Study""""Restoration of Distressed Secondary Monitoring System at a Hazardous Waste Landfill""; ""Hurricanes, Earthquakes, and Natural Hazards II""; ""Investigation of Damage to a Masonry Condominium Building from the 1994 Northridge Earthquake""; ""Guidelines for Determination of Wind versus Water Causation of Hurricane Damage""; ""South Clear Well Roof Collapse: Hydraulic Uplift or Excessive Construction Loading?""; ""Colorado Historic Bridge Field Testing"" ""Prowers Bridge Study: Experimental and Analytical Techniques of Wind Loading Analysis at an Historic Truss Bridge""""Analysis and Testing of the Historic Blue River Bridge Subjected to Wind""; ""Wind Load Analysis of a Truss Bridge at Rifle Colorado""; ""Analysis and Verification Testing of the Historic San Miguel Bridge""; ""Performance of Transportation Facilities""; ""Forensic Investigation of Sections 390103,390108,390109, and 390110 of the Ohio SHRP US 23 Test Pavement""; ""Repair of Harbor Facilities""; ""Blast Capacity and Protection of AASHTO Girder Bridges"" ""Historical Cases and Education""""Environmental Tragedy of Love Canal""; ""The Darlington Building Collapse: Modern Engineering and Obsolete Systems""; ""Learning from Failure: Teaching a Course on Building Performance and Forensic Techniques""; ""Vibrations""; ""Vibrations of Cable-Stayed Bridges""; ""Human Induced Vibration Monitoring of a College Football Stadium""; ""Forensic Engineering of Intolerable Structural Vibrations and Damage from Construction and Industrial Dynamic Sources"" ""90 Feet�The Difference an Avenue Makes: Protection of Existing Historic Structures during Adjacent Construction"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455272703321 |
Reston, VA, : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Forensic engineering 2009 [[electronic resource] ] : pathology of the built environment : proceedings of the Fifth Congress on Forensic Engineering, November 11-14, 2009, Washington, D.C. / / sponsored by Technical Council on Forensic Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; edited by Shen-en Chen ... [et al.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reston, Va., : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (838 p.) |
Disciplina | 624.1/71 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ChenShen-en |
Soggetto topico |
Structural failures - Investigation
Forensic engineering |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-7844-7642-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Building Envelope I: Performance""; ""Practices to Reduce Common Failures""; ""Case Studies of Roofing and Cladding Failures Involving Internal Pressurization""; ""Water and Moisture Management with Sustainable Building Products""; ""Stone Veneer Wall Failure: A Small Earthquake Reveals a Large Problem""; ""Thermal Inefficiencies in Building Enclosures�Causes of Moisture Related Performance Problems""; ""Building Envelope II: Masonry Walls""; ""Inspection, Rating, and Repair of a Residential Building Envelope Detail""
""Special Problems with Composite Multiwythe Masonry Walls""""Identification and Diagnosis of Building FaÃade Failures""; ""Evaluation and Repair of a Distressed Masonry Veneer FaÃade: A Case Study of the Litton Reaves Repair Project""; ""To Seal or Not to Seal: A Practical Study of Masonry Surface Treatments""; ""Bridges and Tunnels""; ""The Bussey Railroad Bridge Collapse""; ""Assessing the Vulnerability of Large Critical Infrastructure Using Fully-Coupled Blast Effects Modeling""; ""Development and Application of a Fast-Running Tool to Characterize Shock Damage within Tunnel Structures"" ""Collapse of the Wimer Covered Timber Bridge""""Residential""; ""Built-Up Column Stability in Wood Construction""; ""Mold in Ductwork: A Forensic Analysis""; ""The New FEMA 320 and FEMA 361â€?Highlights of the Wind and Flood Hazards Criteria for the Design and Construction of Residential and Community Safe Rooms (Shelters)""; ""A Huff, and a Puff, andâ€?It Blew the Chimney Down""; ""Building Envelope III: Roofing and Drainage""; ""Residential Roofing Evaluation""; ""Assessing Wind Damage to Asphalt Roof Shingles""; ""The Roof Drainage Epidemic""; ""Soils I: Subsurface Conditions"" ""Dimensional Study of Mine Subsidence Mapping Using Google Earth""""Forensic Considerations in Sinkhole Investigations""; ""Case History: Sulfate-Induced Heave of Lime-Treated Soils beneath a Structure in Western Colorado""; ""Forensic Engineering in the Assessment of Contaminated Land""; ""Settlement Problems in Peat Due to Their High Compressibility and Possible Solution Using Cement Columns""; ""Soils II: Foundations""; ""Bearing Capacity of Rectangular Foundations near the Slopes with Nonassociated Flow Rules"" ""Assessment and Remediation of Geotechnical and Structural Deficiencies at a 5-Story Hotel Experiencing Large Differential Settlements""""Optimization of Compaction Grouting in Collapsible Soils""; ""Rethinking Waterproofing for Subsurface Structures""; ""Floor Level Surveys and Their Use in Geotechnical Investigations: Case Studies""; ""Soils III: Vibrations and Blasting""; ""Vibration Study of a Proposed Fitness Center Adjacent to a Server Room""; ""Shock and Blasting Effects on Power Transmission Structures"" ""Soil Contributions to Blasting Effects from Case Histories and Vibration Limits"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456231503321 |
Reston, Va., : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Forensic engineering 2018 : forging forensic frontiers : proceedings of the eighth Congress on Forensic Engineering, Austin, Texas, November 29-December 2, 2018 / / edited by Rui Liu [and three others] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reston, Virginia : , : American Society of Civil Engineers, , [2018] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1,174 pages) |
Disciplina | 624.171 |
Soggetto topico |
Structural failures - Investigation
Building failures - Investigation Forensic engineering |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-5231-2585-3
0-7844-8201-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910467513603321 |
Reston, Virginia : , : American Society of Civil Engineers, , [2018] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How to organize and run a failure investigation [[electronic resource] /] / Daniel P. Dennies |
Autore | Dennies Daniel P |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Materials Park, OH, : ASM International, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | vii, 223 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 624.1/71 |
Soggetto topico | Structural failures - Investigation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61503-048-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458596403321 |
Dennies Daniel P | ||
Materials Park, OH, : ASM International, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How to organize and run a failure investigation [[electronic resource] /] / Daniel P. Dennies |
Autore | Dennies Daniel P |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Materials Park, OH, : ASM International, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | vii, 223 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 624.1/71 |
Soggetto topico | Structural failures - Investigation |
ISBN | 1-61503-048-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791436003321 |
Dennies Daniel P | ||
Materials Park, OH, : ASM International, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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How to organize and run a failure investigation / / Daniel P. Dennies |
Autore | Dennies Daniel P |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Materials Park, OH, : ASM International, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | vii, 223 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 624.1/71 |
Soggetto topico | Structural failures - Investigation |
ISBN |
1-62708-256-5
1-61503-048-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Author -- What Is a Failure? -- Failures Come in All Shapes and Sizes -- Aspects of a Failure Investigation -- Nine Steps of a Failure Investigation -- A Few Pitfalls and More Useful Tools -- General Procedures for Failure Analysis -- Glossary -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816199403321 |
Dennies Daniel P | ||
Materials Park, OH, : ASM International, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A practical guide to engineering failure investigation |
Autore | Matthews Clifford |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 620.112 |
Soggetto topico |
Materials - Fatigue
Structural failures - Investigation Forensic engineering Fracture mechanics |
ISBN |
0-470-02603-0
1-118-90269-6 0-585-47754-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830903603321 |
Matthews Clifford | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A practical guide to engineering failure investigation |
Autore | Matthews Clifford |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified], : John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 620.112 |
Soggetto topico |
Materials - Fatigue
Structural failures - Investigation Forensic engineering Fracture mechanics |
ISBN |
0-470-02603-0
1-118-90269-6 0-585-47754-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910877746003321 |
Matthews Clifford | ||
[Place of publication not identified], : John Wiley & Sons Incorporated, 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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A practical guide to engineering failure investigation / by Clifford Matthews |
Autore | Matthews, Clifford |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : Professional Engineering, 1998 |
Descrizione fisica | xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 624.171 |
Soggetto topico |
Structural failures - Investigation
Fracture mechanics Materials - Fatigue |
ISBN | 1860580866 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991000357309707536 |
Matthews, Clifford | ||
London : Professional Engineering, 1998 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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