The Practice of Forensic Structural Engineering in IABSE Member Countries: Review of a Survey

Ratay, Robert T.; Palmisano, Fabrizio; Brühwiler, Eugen; Duntemann, John F.; Guo, Tong; Mans, Dik-Gert; Terwel, Karel; Wood, Jonathan

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“…The survey was extended and finally 31 out of 48 IABSE member countries responded. Updates of this project were presented at IABSE conferences in Madrid (Ratay et al, 2014) and Geneva (Palmisano and Ratay, 2015). A final report is expected in the autumn of 2016.…”

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Briefing: Activities by IABSE WG8 (Forensic Structural Engineering)

Terwel¹,

Palmisano²

2016

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Forensic En

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A working group on forensic engineering (WG8) was established within the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) in 2011. This working group aims to mitigate structural failures and improve forensic engineering practices. To accomplish this goal, several activities were organised such as an international survey among 48 countries to compare forensic engineering practices. Furthermore, several interesting forensic engineering sessions were organised at IABSE conferences with various presentations. Moreover, a pre-conference short course focusing on various types of failures and the process of forensic investigation was well received. It appears that there is great interest in forensic structural engineering both from practitioners and from researchers. This briefing article describes the activities of WG8 in detail. Within the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), a working group on Forensic Structural Engineering (WG8) was established in 2011.'The ultimate objective of WG 8 is to mitigate structural failures and improve forensic engineering practices. To those ends it endeavours to (i) report on the engineering investigation of structural failures;(ii) encourage improvements of design and construction practices based on the lessons learned from failures; (iii) publicise techniques of field and analytical investigation of failures; (iv) promote ethical forensic engineering practices; (v) inform of effective dispute resolution procedures; and (vi) through publications and seminars increase the awareness of students and practicing engineers of the causes, prevention and consequences of failures, thereby increasing the safety and reliability of structures ' (Ratay, 2013).

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Briefing: Activities by IABSE WG8 (Forensic Structural Engineering)

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Palmisano²

2016

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Forensic En

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The Practice of Forensic Structural Engineering in IABSE's Member Countries

Palmisano,

Rus,

Terwel

2024

Structural Engineering International

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The Practice of Forensic Structural Engineering in IABSE Member Countries: preliminary review of survey 2022

Palmisano,

Rus,

Terwel

2023

IABSE Congress, New Delhi 2023: Engineering for Sustainable Development

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The IABSE Task Group 5.1 on Forensic Structural Engineering aims to examine and to mitigate structural failures by sharing knowledge of technical, human, and organizational causes of failures, in addition to methods and techniques in forensic investigation processes. The expertise of Forensic Engineering is yet to be worldwide recognised as a specific domain of civil engineering practice and this article amends previously published technical reports in 2012, 2014 and 2015 by former IABSE Working Group 8 following a new survey carried out in 2020-2022.This new survey has been developed with the lessons learnt from the previous survey in 2013-2014.This article is a preliminary report on some topics of the survey and will allow to familiarize with the state-of-art in forensic structural engineering practice across 22 countries.

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The Practice of Forensic Structural Engineering in IABSE Member Countries: Review of a Survey

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Briefing: Activities by IABSE WG8 (Forensic Structural Engineering)

Briefing: Activities by IABSE WG8 (Forensic Structural Engineering)

The Practice of Forensic Structural Engineering in IABSE's Member Countries

The Practice of Forensic Structural Engineering in IABSE Member Countries: preliminary review of survey 2022

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