Structural Audit of Building by Destructive and Non-destructive Testing

Abstract

Since the earliest ages of human development, civil engineering provides various tools in fulfilling the needs of humans in the form of eminent structures. These structures may be residential, industrial or commercial. Every building has its own life span and within this life span it should stand firmly on its position. Now-a-days, some buildings are collapsing before completing their life span. This may cause danger to the people staying in there. Therefore it is necessary to investigate the present condition of the structure to evaluate performance of the building with the help of structural audit. Structural audit helps to save life and property. This paper brings out the basic information about the structural audit, process of auditing and methods in practice in this process. This has been brought in detail along with the case study where author of the paper was directly involved in auditing process.