... are discussed, including how to balance conflicts of interest between them. climate change codes of practice & standards failure Climate action for civil engineers encompasses three key components: climate mitigation, climate resilience and climate adaptation. Climate mitigation involves...

...Man Zhou, PhD; Dingyi Yang, PhD; Mostafa Fahmi Hassanein, PhD; Jiandong Zhang, PhD; Lin An, PhD Recent high-profile failures of high-strength bolts – including the fatal Vivekananda Flyover collapse in Kolkata in 2016 – serve to highlight the ongoing risk of failure of such bolts. Based...

...Stephen Wearne, DIC, PhD, CEng, FICE, FIMechE, FAPM This paper reviews reported causes of a range of engineering failures from around the world in an attempt to define general lessons for future projects. It draws on cases of major failures reported over the past few years and the conclusions...

...Balasingam Muhunthan, PhD, PE; Sithampara Pillai, CEng, MASc, MICE This paper provides a retrospective analysis of the failure of the 93 m high Teton dam in Idaho, USA, on its first filling in June 1976. Water from the near-full reservoir cascaded downstream, killing 11 people and causing massive...

...Bill Wolmuth; John Surtees Over the past 180 years there has been a significant number of crowd-related bridge collapses around the world. Barring natural disasters or human conflict, they have involved greater loss of life than any other form of structural failure. This paper reviews crowd-related...