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