This article explores the principles behind robustness checks, their significance, and why treating them as just a code requirement is not enough.
Category: Lessons from Failures
This article explores the fundamental principles of cantilever structures, identifies gaps in existing design standards, and provides recommendations for ensuring their safety.
This article explores the concept of structural redundancy and progressive collapse and also identifies the means by which engineers refine redundancy to prevent progressive collapse and enhance structural safety
This article explores the responsibilities of structural engineers serving as expert witnesses. It examines the qualifications required, the importance of impartiality, the potential conflicts of interest, and the key procedural aspects of providing expert testimony.
This article explores the causes of temporary works failures through the lens of real-life examples. By focusing on human, procedural, and technical issues.
This article introduces engineers to the various techniques available to monitor movement in historic structures.
This article discusses the collapse of the Baltimore bridge and highlights the key lessons structural engineers can learn from the engineering failure
This article presents the NTSB investigations into the 2018 Pedestrian Bridge Collapse in Florida and the lessons learnt from the failure
This article explores forensic engineering from the perspective of failure investigation. It highlights what constitute an engineering failure and how the structural engineer should approach a failure investigation.
There must be a delicate balance between progress and sacrifice. The Implosion of the Titan Submersible is an engineering disaster that should remind engineers never to compromise safety in the quest for innovation.