Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook

2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-07-149884-5
Verlag: McGraw-Hill Education

Buch, Englisch, 688 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1128 g

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.The Most Complete and Up-to-Date Resource on Forensic Structural EngineeringThoroughly revised and featuring contributions from leading experts, this definitive handbook offers comprehensive treatment of forensic structural engineering and expert witness delivery. From exploring the possible origins of errors, through investigating and analyzing failures, to working with the legal profession for assigning responsibilities, Forensic Structural Engineering Handbook, Second Edition covers every important topic in the field. - The design and construction process

- Design and construction safety codes, standards, and regulations
- Standard of care and duty to perform
- First steps and legal concerns after a failure
- Engineering investigation of failures
- Origins and causes of failures
- Loads and hazards
- Design errors, construction defects, and project miscommunication
- Defects, deterioration, and durability
- Mechanisms and analyses of failures in steel, concrete, masonry, timber, and temporary structures; building envelope; and structural foundations
- Litigation and dispute resolution
- The expert consultant and witness

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ratay, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Konstruktiver Ingenieurbau, Baustatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributor List;Preface;Suggestions to the Instructor;Part 1: Design and Construction Practices; Chapter 1. Design-Construction Process;Chapter 2. Design Codes and Standards;Chapter 3. Construction Safety Codes, Standards and Regulations;Chapter 4. Standard of Care;Part 2: Engineering Response to Failures;Chapter 5. The First Steps after a Failure;Chapter 6. The Engineering Investigation Process;Part 3: Causes of Failures;Chapter 7. Loads and Hazards: Their Nature, Magnitude, and Consequences;Chapter 8. Design Errors, Construction Defects, and Project Miscommunication;Chapter 9. Defects, Deterioration, and Durability;Chapter 10. Temporary Structures in Construction;Part 4: Material-Specific Forensic Analyses;Chapter 11. Steel Structures;Chapter 12. Concrete Structures;Chapter 13. Masonry Structures;Chapter 14. Timber Structures;Chapter 15. Building Facades;Chapter 16. Foundations;Part 5: Professional Practice and Legal Aspects;Chapter 17. Legal Concerns after a Failure;Chapter 18. Litigation and Dispute Resolution;Chapter 19. The Expert Consultant and Witness;Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ratay, Robert
Robert T. Ratay, Ph.D., P.E., is a highly regarded structural engineer and former university professor with an extensive background in both design and failure analysis. His nearly four decades of professional experience is divided almost equally between structural engineering practice, and combined teaching and consulting. Ratay worked with such prominent firms as Le Messurier Associates, Severud Associates, and HNTB. He was a Professor and Chairman of the Civil Engineering Department, then Dean of the School of Engineering at Pratt Institute, and a Professor at Polytechnic University (formerly Brooklyn Polytech). His current practice in forensic structural engineering is directed toward the investigation of structural and construction failures, providing expert consultant services to architects, engineers, contractors, owners, attorneys, insurance companies, and government agencies. Dr. Ratay is a Fellow of ASCE, has chaired several of its technical committees, and currently serves on the Executive Committee of its Structural Engineering Institute. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the authoritative Handbook of Temporary Structures in Construction published by McGraw-Hill.

Robert Ratay is an acknowledged expert in forensic structural engineering, and has an active consulting practice in that field. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University where he has been teaching the graduate course of Forensic Structural Engineering which he created and developed some years ago, and for which the Handbook of Forensic Structural Engineering is the standard textbook. Ratay has lectured at conferences and seminars in the U.S. and abroad and published in U.S. and international journals on forensic structural engineering.