Approaches to enhancing the efficiency of research into accidents of steel structures

This article reviews publications investigating accidents at buildings and civil engineering structures. According to the conducted analysis, such publications commonly describe the circumstances of specific accidents, rather than identify their causes. Classifications of accident causes are often published without disclosing the information sources. No publications have been found on assessing the impact of the human factor, including design errors, rolled metal defects, poor -quality manufacturing or installation, as well as violations of the operational rules. In the majority of publications, outdated methods are used for analysing and processing data on accidents. In order to improve the current situation, organizational and methodological measures are proposed. The importance of using the methods of systems analysis and content analysis for searching and processing information is substantiated. It is shown that the main conditions for accident prevention involve strict compliance with reliability requirements at the design, constructional, and operational stages, organization of the maintenance service of structures, their timely inspection, as well as preventive and overhaul repairs. In this regard, the accumulation of statistical data on damages and accidents, grouped according to a unified scientifically-based methodology, appears to be of great importance. It is proposed to create a unified form for data representation on accidents that should be placed on web portals in open access for the purpose of its continuous replenishment.

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