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Analysis of causes of bridge failures during construction

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posted on 2017-01-25, 10:03 authored by Sun-Wah Poon, Andrew Price
Over fifty bridge collapses during construction from about twenty countries or cities in the past thirty years were studied. About half of collapses were falsework failures while the remaining were largely contributed by the lacking of consideration of stresses incurred in the partially completed works during erection. Procedural errors were always present though not easily extracted from the reports. The findings of the research emphasize the importance of an effective communication system in order to prevent falsework failure and bridge collapse during construction.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

3rd International Conference on Structural Failure .

Pages

149 - 156

Citation

POON, S. and PRICE, A., 1991. Analysis of causes of bridge failures during construction. IN: Proceedings of 1991 3rd International Conference on Structural Failure: durability, maintenance and retrofitting, Singapore, 4-5 April 1991, pp.149-156.

Publisher

Singapore Concrete Institute

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

1991

Notes

Closed access.

ISBN

9789810026448;9810026447

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Language

  • en

Location

Singapore

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