The structural engineering profession plays a key role in the assurance of safe and serviceable building performance. ""Structural Safety and Its Quality Assurance"" looks at structural safety problems from the basic concept phase, to the design and construction phase. The committee report also discusses the overall concept of safety including how to ensure safety, and will be of value in explaining these concepts of safety to a client or to the public. The contents include: Safety Concepts and Risk Management; Roles of Regulation and Standards; Load Modeling; Reliability Analysis; Reliability-Based Design; Reliability-Based Service Life Prediction and Durability in Structural Safety Assessment; Soils and Foundations; Assessment of Existing Structures; Quality Management of Structural Design; Quality Management in Construction; and Human Error in Constructed Projects.
- ISBN13 9780784408162
- Publish Date 1 January 2005
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint American Society of Civil Engineers
- Edition illustrated Edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English