Failures in Concrete Structures : Case Studies in Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete.
Some lessons are only learned from mistakes but, it's much cheaper to learn from someone else's mistakes than to have to do so from your own. Drawing on over fifty years of working with concrete structures, Robin Whittle examines the problems which he has seen occur and shows how they coul...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
CRC Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1
- Failures due to Design Errors; Chapter 2
- Problems and Failures due to Errors in Structural Modelling; Chapter 3
- Failures due to Inappropriate Extrapolation of Code of Practice Clauses; Chapter 4
- Failures due to Misuse of Code of Practice Clauses; Chapter 5
- Problems and Failures due to Inadequate Assessment of Critical Force Paths; Chapter 6
- Problems and Failures due to Poor Detailing; Chapter 7
- Problems and Failures due to Inadequate Understanding of Materials' Properties.
- Chapter 8
- Problems and Failures due to Poor ConstructionChapter 9
- Problems and Failures due to Poor Management; Chapter 10
- Problems and Failures due to Poor Construction Planning; Chapter 11
- Problems and Failures due to Deliberate Malpractice; Chapter 12
- Problems Arising from the Procurement Process; Chapter 13
- Contributions of Research and Development toward Avoidance of Failures; References; Back Cover.