Analysis for Yangmingtan Bridge collapse

作     者：Fan, Yunxiao Zhu, Jing Pei, Jingjing Li, Zhi Wu, Yanguang 

作者机构：China Univ Geosci Beijing Peoples R China 

出 版 物：《ENGINEERING FAILURE ANALYSIS》 (工程事故分析)

年 卷 期：2015年第56卷

页      面：20-27页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 0802[工学-机械工程] 

基　　金：National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) China University of Geosciences (Beijing) through the 'Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities' 

主　　题：Yangmingtan Bridge accident NVivo software Rasmussen's accident causation model Accident analysis 

摘      要：In recent years, more than thirty bridge accidents have occurred in China, but only few accidents were tracked and most accident investigation reports were not open to the public. The Yangmingtan Bridge collapse accident occurred on 24 August, 2012 in Harbin City, which caused three fatalities and five injuries. This accident has evoked wide concern from the public and media, but no official report provided any conclusion on the cause of the accident until now, while no related research was ever undertaken either. NVivo is a qualitative data analysis package which helps researchers to organize and analyze complex non numerical or unstructured data. Because of the lack of data in the official report, this research collected both texts and multimedia information from the web, newspaper and videos to identify potential root causes of the accident. This research first organized all information with the aid of NVivo 8.0 software. Then Rasmussen s accident causation model was adopted for use as the frame nodes for the case study. Based on the software, this research analyzed the system wide failures and actions involved in the accident and identified the multi-levels of failure modes which included government, regulatory agency, company, management, staff, and the physical accident sequence. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.