Structural Safety, Efficiency, and Expressiveness

Structural designers should integrate material strength, structural safety, economy, and elegance into one excellent project, especially for the one that is extremely visible to the public. Efficient and expressive forms would help the public learn the possibilities of changing our nation’s visual facilities into safe and economic landmarks. However, structural failures or near-miss collapses turned the public’s attention to expressive structures’ structural safety due to the cracking in a steel tie girder of the I-40 bridge over the Mississippi River in 2021 and the pedestrian bridge’s collapse in Miami in 2018. Through a failure case study on the 2018 Miami pedestrian bridge collapse, this paper discusses structural engineers’ responsibilities in creating a safe and durable structure with a great visual appeal, disciplined by the conservation of construction materials and costs, exploring structural engineers’ roles in addressing challenges posed by unique and innovative designs, and following ASCE’s Code of Ethics for engineers.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784485798.061
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2024 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Liu, Rui
• Conference:
  • 10th Congress on Forensic Engineering
  • Location: Seattle Washington, United States
  • Date: 2024-11-1 to 2024-11-4
• Publication Date: 2024

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 596-603
• Monograph Title: Forensic Engineering 2024: Finding Answers to the What, Why, Who, and How of Preventing Failures

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aesthetics; Case studies; Collapse; Failure analysis; Footbridges; Safety; Structural engineering
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01937375
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784485798
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Nov 19 2024 9:36AM