Dr Allan Mann, Jacobs
ICE Lecture 2009
Civil engineers continually interact with other engineering disciplines. There are also many internal interfaces - for example between design and construction, and between analysis and practice. Clearly, opportunities for misunderstandings abound whenever there is an interface between specialist skills. Left undiscovered, these misunderstandings can result in failure. It is vital to learn from all failures. Grouping them under interfaces offers a convenient categorisation.
Dr Allan Mann, Senior Consultants, Jacobs, discusses building interfaces, technology frontiers, structures supporting moving loads, bearings, systems' behaviour and control systems.
This lecture is based on Alan Mann's paper in Civil Engineering Journal Failures Special Issue, published October 2008.
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