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Has your House Got Cracks? : A Homeowner's Guide to Subsidence and Heave Damage
Provides practical guidance for homeowners whose properties have been affected by subsidence, or heave, or who are concerned by the potential risk of damage. The first, best-selling, edition dealt specifically with the problems associated with properties founded on shrinkable clay soils, and was reprinted many times. The second edition has been expanded to include sections on other types of subsidence and causes of damage that are unrelated to foundation movement.
Failures in concrete structures : Case studies in reinforced and prestressed concrete
This selection of the author’s firsthand experience with incidents with RC and prestressed structures helps readers avoid the same errors—mistakes discovered at the design stage, or that led to failures or partial structure collapse. It focuses on misunderstanding of structures or codes of practice and specifics during construction.
Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement
This book demonstrates how accidents happen, how social processes are fundamental to their occurrence, and how learning and inference about their causes is a core public management function. Along the way, Seibel masterfully musters evidence from a multitude of sources to painstakingly document both bridge and building failures and the organizational pathologies that accompany them. This is a must-read for those who want to better understand such 'black swan' events and the search for resilience.
