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Risks and Safety in Building Structures

In: Risks in Technological Systems

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  • Håkan Sundquist

    (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))

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All structures and materials are degraded and destroyed with time. The only thing which varies is the time-scale of the degradation. A sandcastle on the beach can perhaps survive for a few hours, whereas the breaking down of a mountain can take billions of years. In the case of a building structure, it is important that it is designed so that it has the lifetime which has been intended. Throughout its envisaged lifetime, the structure should also have a high level of safety to resist the forces and loads to which it is subjected and the environment to which it is exposed. In this chapter, we shall discuss risks and safety aspects in relation to different types of structure and in particular the influences of nature and of human beings. In this context building structures include everything which humans build, e.g., houses and civil engineering structures of various kinds, such as bridges, locks, masts, tunnels etc.

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  • Håkan Sundquist, 2010. "Risks and Safety in Building Structures," Springer Series in Reliability Engineering, in: Göran Grimvall & Åke J. Holmgren & Per Jacobsson & Torbjörn Thedéen (ed.), Risks in Technological Systems, chapter 5, pages 47-68, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ssrchp:978-1-84882-641-0_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-641-0_5
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