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Bridge Failures and Lessons Learnt: Future-Proofing to Prevent Disasters

Bridge Failures and Lessons Learnt: Future-Proofing to Prevent Disasters

Fish, Richard

Paperback

Technology & Engineering

ISBN10: 1836085591
ISBN13: 9781836085591
Publisher: ICE Publishing
Published: Feb 28 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.70
Language: English

Around the world, bridge failures are occurring on an almost monthly basis. Bridge Failures and Lessons Learnt: Future-proofing to prevent disasters uses case studies from history, as well as more recent events, to analyse in detail the causes and consequences of these failures, shedding light on technological advancements and actionable steps to prevent such disasters in the future. Bridge collapses may be attributed to a relatively small number of causes, including errors either in design or construction, incorrect operation, poor maintenance and, especially with climate change upon us, environmental factors. It is usually due to a combination of these factors which leads to failure. In many cases, however, the detailed engineering reasons behind those collapses have not been widely shared so that bridge engineers can learn the lessons and to try to prevent similar recurrences. This principle of knowledge sharing has been fundamental to the development of engineering understanding for the last few centuries.

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