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Journal
Volume 51 (1986)
Front matter 1
Preface 3
Table of Contents 7
Miscellaneous 12
Rubric: Session A: Introduction 13
Article: Quality Assurance - a critical review 15
Article: Quality assurance: basic data from European experience 21
Rubric: Session B: Projects and decision making 29
Article: Quality assurance in the Eastern Sheldt project 31
Article: Safety considerations for the Burlington Skyway project 39
Article: Economic and socioecological aspects of a European motorway 47
Rubric: Session B: Tendering and contracting 55
Article: The Japanese way of tendering and contracting 57
Article: Planning, management and quality assurance in civil engineering 63
Article: Quality monitoring by insurance related control 71
Article: Project organization and contract management 79
Rubric: Session C: Planning and design 89
Article: Optimisation of measures for quality assurance 91
Article: Recent advances in structural systems reliability theory 101
Article: Role of probabilstic analysis for quality assurance 109
Article: Probabilistic methods in Dutch offshore geotechnics 117
Article: Safety of earth slopes: a probablistic approach 125
Article: Assessment of safety of pipelines subjected to soil liquefaction 133
Article: Optimum aseismic design of structures 141
Article: Fatigue reliability level of railway bridges in China 149
Article: Acceptable risk levels for fatigue design of concrete structures 157
Article: Probabilistic appraisal of safety factors in design codes 165
Article: Probability-based working stress design code 173
Article: Risk analysis and protective island design for ship collisions 181
Article: Application of decision analysis to design of Arctic offshore structures 189
Article: Quality assurance for buildings in ground movement areas 197
Rubric: Session D: Construction and inspection 207
Article: Quality assurance - the Japanes way 209
Article: Acceptable size of weld defect in steel buildings 215
Article: Quality assurance of welded structures 223
Article: Estimation of construction accuracy of steel bridges 229
Article: Safety of compressed stiffened panels with initial imperfections 237
Article: Quality control of a double deck railway bridge in steel 243
Article: Quality control at erection site of Iwakuorjima bridge 251
Article: Quality control in the erection of cable-stayed bridges 259
Article: Safety control for large-scale underwater blasting 267
Article: Sicherheitsanforderungen und Qualitätssicherung in Kernkraftwerksbau 275
Article: Monitoring of a historical wall painting 283
Article: Assessment of the criticality of bridge components 293
Article: Quality concrete production for Ganga bridge, Patna, India 301
Article: Quality management for Arctic offshore concrete structures 309
Article: Mastering global quality by an interactive concept 317
Rubric: Session E: Human and organisational aspects 327
Article: Quality assurance in the USA and Japan: a comparison 329
Article: Quality assurance and safety in highway construction 337
Article: A study of construction safety in Washington State, USA 345
Article: Problems of safety and quality assurance in the Third World 351
Article: Improvement of quality evolution system for inground storage tanks 359
Article: Comments on quality assurance drawn from building collapses 367
Article: Quality assurance in a major consulting engineering company 377
Article: Quality assurance as a management tool for large projects 385
Article: Accident analysis and safety assessment for tunnelling works 393
Index: IABSE reports 401