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Collapsed barn at Hörsne, Gotland, Sweden Building collapse due to snow weight. Structural integrity and failure is an aspect of engineering that deals with the ability of a structure to support a designed structural load (weight, force, etc.) without breaking and includes the study of past structural failures in order to prevent failures in future designs.
Cantilever bridge crossing Han River: Structural failure due to bad welding 32 killed, 17 injured 48-metre (157 ft) slab between the fifth and the sixth piers collapsed Structural failure was caused by improper welding of the steel trusses of the suspension structure beneath the concrete slab roadway. Kobe Route of the Hanshin Expressway: Kobe ...
More experienced engineers may be responsible for the structural design and integrity of an entire system, such as a building. [citation needed] Structural engineers often specialize in particular types of structures, such as buildings, bridges, pipelines, industrial, tunnels, vehicles, ships, aircraft, and spacecraft.
Bridge: 13 dead, 145 injured 2007: Collapse of bridge over the Jiantuo River during construction: Hunan, China: Bridge: 50+ dead, ~90+ injured 2007: Collapse of Cần Thơ Bridge: Cần Thơ, Vietnam: Bridge: 52–59+ dead, 140–189+ injured 2007: Estádio Fonte Nova: Salvador, Brazil: Stadium: 7 dead, 40 injured 2007: Charleston Sofa Super Store
In the context to structural analysis, a structure refers to a body or system of connected parts used to support a load. Important examples related to Civil Engineering include buildings, bridges, and towers; and in other branches of engineering, ship and aircraft frames, tanks, pressure vessels, mechanical systems, and electrical supporting structures are important.
The International Journal of Structural Integrity is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on damage tolerance design, structural integrity and failure. It was established in 2010 and is published by Emerald Publishing .
The DMRB is used to design trunk roads such as the A20 in the UK. The Design Manual for Roads and Bridges (DMRB) is a series of 15 volumes that provide standards, advice notes and other documents relating to the design, assessment and operation of trunk roads, including motorways in the United Kingdom, and, with some amendments, the Republic of Ireland.
A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end (called cantilevers).For small footbridges, the cantilevers may be simple beams; however, large cantilever bridges designed to handle road or rail traffic use trusses built from structural steel, or box girders built from prestressed concrete.