Learning from Engineering Failures Report
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Added on 2020-04-07
Learning from Engineering Failures Report
Added on 2020-04-07
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Learning from engineering failureEngineering failures are able to happen at different situations. In many cases, engineering failures have been able to happen since in past decades. Nevertheless, mitigation measures are usually required to be taken before the execution of the projects. Measures are usually taken in advance to ensure that the failures are prevented. Nevertheless, these measures are at times not able to withstand the failures and therefore not able to prevent such failures. Moreover, the engineering failures are able to happen on different situations and different ranges (Drysdale, 2011). Ranges on these failures are wide and are able to enhance the different aspects of the projects. The control of the engineering projects is critical to ensure safety of the structure. Engineers are able to enhance the safety of the structures by enhancing and considering different aspects of the projects. Medium and widespread engineering failures are common in many of the projects. Under these situations, many of the projects are able to experience different failures under different situations. Medium levelUnder construction, buildings are meant to withstand fire situations and enhance their safety measures. Since long time, engineers were able to be designed to prevent the engineering failuresunder fire situations. Artillery fire was able to happen 10 May 1721 and therefore destroying St. Peter's church in Riga. The church was able to experience the fire, which enhanced the engineering failure. Masonry construction is meant to be able to withstand the fire effects at any instances. The masonry walling and structures are able to enhance the resistance into effects of fire and excessive heats. The structural capacity of the masonry should have the capacity to prevent the engineering failure. Wall thickness is one of the major preventive measure, which is
usually in cooperated to enhance the failure. Enough coating is a key measure that should ensure that the failure of fire is prevented. The inherent risk from this failure is the collapse of the wall. The wall should be in strong position in order to withstand such exposures and ensure that the wall does not fail. The fire is able to weaken the bonding materials and therefore causing the wallfailure. Design flaws are key in ensuring that a proper mitigation program is achieved. The level of damage on this project was at medium level. The damage is able to define different levels and measures, which can be used to rectify the damage. At this project, reconstruction measures were taken to rectify the damage on this level (Pētersone, 2010). The damage was able to lead to complete reconstruction of the wall areas. This is because the bonding structure was weakened and this led to increase the damages. Masonry structures only withstand heat up to some levels and this plays a critical extend under which the damage was experienced on this structure. The fire effect was able to destroy the interior section of the church. The partition sections and walls were completed and led to the complete replacement of the interior section, which was termed as a medium damage level on the project (Drysdale, 2011). Fault on electrical sections are the major key causes of the fire, which was able to lead to the engineering failure. The low strength of the wall qualifies to be engineering failure because they are able to affect thestrength of the members of structure. Limestone covering was also done during the reconstruction stage. This was a measure to be able to enhance the prevention of damage to the
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