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Damage can be intentional or accidental. When an object or building is deliberately damaged, the act can be socially significant as a way to degrade the meaning of the object. Though things can have multiple meanings, in circumstances where they are deliberately damaged one meaning—which prompts the act—takes precedence. [3]
Progressive collapses may be accidental, as the result of design deficiencies, fire, unintentional overload, material failure or natural phenomenon (e.g. erosion, wind or earthquakes). They can also be induced deliberately as a demolition method, specifically that of building implosion, or caused by acts of terrorism or war.
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.
Residential building: 34 dead, 40 injured 1971: 2000 Commonwealth Avenue collapse: Boston, Massachusetts, US: Condominium building under construction: 4 dead, 30 injured 1971: South Bridge Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany: Bridge under construction: 13 dead, 13 injured 1971: 1971 Certej dam failure: Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County ...
Iowa's health agency has determined that the deaths of three men crushed in the collapse of a downtown Davenport building were accidental. The finding released Monday by the Iowa Department of ...
Construction site safety is an aspect of construction-related activities concerned with protecting construction site workers and others from death, injury, disease or other health-related risks.
"Now it will allow us to see how the loads interact with buildings and cause damage. That will then allow us to come up with materials that can resist storms, and we will be able to see what ...
All buildings to which members of the public are admitted in significant numbers. Stadia accommodating more than 5000 spectators. Buildings containing hazardous substances and / or processes. For buildings intended for more than one type of use, the consequences class should be that of the most onerous type. [2]