Measures for structural safety - Modelling the human error influence on temporary falsework during the design and construction

Measures for structural safety - Modelling the human error influence on temporary falsework during the design and construction

van de Loo, Koen (TU Delft Civil Engineering and Geosciences)

Terwel, K.C. (mentor)
van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (mentor)
Ren, X. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Civil Engineering

2022-07-08

Within the Netherlands, the building industry is startled every couple of years by an impactful structure collapse. Even though over the years, a large amount of structural failure investigation reports and studies have provided abundant lessons, regulations, and good practices, structural failures still occur occasionally. The question arises why the existing control measures and regulations have not led to safer building industry, with fewer (or none) structural failures.
A Human Reliability Assessment method is applied on a case study to test the effectiveness of control measures to increase the structural safety of temporary falsework. The control measures are self-checking, third-party check, and construction check.
Overall, this research has provided a framework to determine the effectiveness of control measures when dealing with human errors. It is possible to perform sensitivity analysis on project tasks, to find out when control measures are most effective. Therefore, this research brings the practical application of HRA models in the building industry a step further.

structural safety
HRA method
human error
human reliability assessment
falsework
temporary structure
control measure
design phase
construction phase
structural reliability
Reliability analysis

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Student theses

master thesis

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