Readership
Practicing engineers, teachers, researchers and students at a unversity level, as well as representatives of owners, operators and builders.

Contents
Robustness is the ability to survive unforeseen circumstances
without undue damage or loss of function. It has become a requirement expressed in modern building codes, mostly without much advice as to how it can be achieved.
Engineering has developed some approaches based on traditional practice as well as recent insight. However, knowledge
about robustness remains scattered and ambiguous, making it difficult to apply to many specific cases.

The authors' attempt to collect and review elements, methods
and strategies toward structural robustness, using a holistic,
almost philosophical approach. This leads to a set of considerations to guide selection and implementation of measures in specific cases, followed by a collection of applications and examples from the authors practice.
The world, engineering and construction are imperfect and
not entirely predictable. Robustness provides a measure of
structural safety beyond traditional codified design rules. 

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99 pages, in English

Structural Engineering Documents 11
Design on Robustness
Franz Knoll and Thomas Vogel

ISBN 978-3-85748-120-8
Format: 170 x 240 mm
Published May 2009

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