1st Edition

Assessment, Evaluation, and Repair of Concrete, Steel, and Offshore Structures

By Mohamed Abdallah El-Reedy Copyright 2019
312 Pages 193 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

312 Pages 193 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Civil engineers must assure that buildings have long and durable lives, and therefore structural assessment and repair are routinely required and must be performed with the utmost accuracy and professionalism. Assessment, Evaluation, and Repair of Concrete, Steel, and Offshore Structures presents the typical causes of structural failure and their mechanisms, discusses the most up-to-date... Read more

Chapter 1 Cases of Structure Failure

Chapter 2 Project Management and Design-Induced Structure Failure

Chapter 3 Problems in Quality Management System

Chapter 4 Bad Materials Cause Failures

Chapter 5 Loads and Structure Failure

Chapter 6 Reliability-Based Design for Structures

Chapter 7 Reliability of Concrete Structure Exposed to Corrosion

Chapter 8 Inspection Methodology: Visual Inspection

Chapter 9 Inspection Methods

Chapter 10 Repair of Concrete, Steel, and Offshore Structures

Biography

Dr. Mohamed A. El-Reedy is a practicing structural engineer whose research focuses on the reliability of concrete and steel structures. He has served as a consultant for numerous large international oil and gas companies in Egypt. He also designs concrete and steel structures including residential buildings, industrial structures, telecommunication towers, and more. Currently, he is responsible for reliability, inspection, and maintenance strategies for both onshore structures and offshore platforms throughout Egypt and in Gulf of Suez in the Red Sea. He has written numerous publications (books and journals) and presents many papers at local and international conferences, some of which are sponsored by ASCE, ASME, ACI, ASTM and API.