Structural failure : technical, legal and insurance aspects : proceedings of the founding symposium of the International Society for Technology, Law and Insurance, 18-19 November 1993, Vienna, Austria /: technical, legal and insurance aspects : proceedings of the founding symposium of the International Society for Technology, Law and Insurance, 18-19 November 1993, Vienna, Austria. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by H.P. Rossmanith.
• Other Names: Rossmanith, H. P; International Society for Technology, Law, and Insurance.
• Contents: Economic effects of ruin of systems / Luciano Faria -- Designing against failure / Roy K. Penny -- Ever diminishing concentric circles : the business outlook for engineering consultants in the litigation area / Bernard Ross -- Product liability and the expert witness : a Canadian perspective / Iain Le May -- The status of product liability in the USA / J. Scott Kirkwood -- The relationship of technology and law in civil suits in Japan / Tsuneo Yamada -- The status of product liability in Poland / Krzysztof Czerkas and Elzbieta Urbanska-Galewka -- Present-day Swiss legislation about product liability / Titus Pachmann -- Product liability : in a case of a license? / Peter Revy von Belvard -- Forensic engineering activities in the Czech Republic / Milos Drdacky -- Some comments on risk assessment and failure analysis activities in Switzerland / R. Kieselbach -- The function of technical documentation : draft recommendation VDI 4500 for user information / C.-O. Bauer -- International commercial arbitration and engineering / F. Schwank -- A role model for the validation of mathematical models and software integrity with respect to product liability / Anup Puri -- The Brazilian experience in integrity evaluation / Henner A. Gomide, Sergio N. Mannheimer and Tito L. de Silveira -- Aging, safety and legal aspects of cableways in Austria / T. Varga and E. Corazza -- Mechanical characterisation of pre-fatigued 2219-T87 and 6061-T6 aluminium alloys under high velocity tension / M. Itabashi, K. Kawata and S. Kusaka -- Fatigue failures and identification of their causes / Matthew Bily -- From a sub-critical to the critical crack : a complex domain in structural stability / Y. Katz and A. Bussiba -- Fundamentals of limit-state design of concrete : Russian experience / Yu. Zaitsev and V.I. Shevchenko.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 624.171; Structural failures -- Congresses; Liability for building accidents -- Congresses; Products liability -- Congresses; Liability for building accidents; Products liability; Structural failures; Conference papers and proceedings
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482271652; 1482271656
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