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Roof Collapse — A Forensic Analysis Years After
In March of 2002, a construction company specializing in light steel construction was awarded a contract for the construction of a fire and rescue facility located in rural Virginia. The project was completed and put into service in October of 2002. Between February 15, 2003 and February 17, 2003, the site area experienced a snow storm resulting in measured snow accumulations of approximately 20 inches. On February 17, 2003, the roof structure of the building failed, collapsing the roof and portions of the second floor walls. The paper describes the process of analyzing the collapse from the perspective of three years later. A review of construction documents, site photographs, and communication documents were used to establish the mechanism and cause of the failure. The lack of available direct site evidence required that the analysis primarily utilize pre-failure information as a means of determining cause of failure.
Roof Collapse — A Forensic Analysis Years After
In March of 2002, a construction company specializing in light steel construction was awarded a contract for the construction of a fire and rescue facility located in rural Virginia. The project was completed and put into service in October of 2002. Between February 15, 2003 and February 17, 2003, the site area experienced a snow storm resulting in measured snow accumulations of approximately 20 inches. On February 17, 2003, the roof structure of the building failed, collapsing the roof and portions of the second floor walls. The paper describes the process of analyzing the collapse from the perspective of three years later. A review of construction documents, site photographs, and communication documents were used to establish the mechanism and cause of the failure. The lack of available direct site evidence required that the analysis primarily utilize pre-failure information as a means of determining cause of failure.
Roof Collapse — A Forensic Analysis Years After
Small, W. W. (author) / Swanson, P. G. (author)
Fourth Forensic Engineering Congress ; 2006 ; Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Forensic Engineering (2006) ; 414-422
2006-10-03
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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