Abstract: The subject of project peer review of structural design was a major topic of discussion at both the 1983 Santa Barbara Engineering Foundation conference, Building Structural Failures—Their Cause and Prevention, and the ...

Abstract: In November of 1990, approximately 850 m (2,800 ft) of the 2020 m (6,620 ft) long Lacey V. Murrow Bridge (LVMB), a 50-year-old floating concrete bridge over Lake Washington near Seattle, sank after a major storm. The bridge ...