Publications

Books published by our engineers at Bosela Forensic Engineering Consultants

Beyond Failure Forensic Case Studies for Civil Engineers
Norbert J. Delatte, Jr., Ph.D., P.E.

Failure Case Studies in Civil Engineering:
Structures, Foundations, and the Geoenvironment, Second Edition
Edited by Paul A. Bosela, Ph.D., P.E.; Pamalee A. Brady, Ph.D., P.E.; Norbert J. Delatte, Ph.D., P.E.; and M. Kevin Parfitt, P.E.

Forensic Engineering Proceedings of the Third Congress
Edited by Paul A. Bosela, Ph.D., P.E.; Pamalee A. Brady, Ph.D., P.E.; Norbert J. Delatte, Ph.D., P.E.; and M. Kevin Parfitt, P.E.

Forensic Engineering Proceedings of the Fourth Congress
Edited by Paul A. Bosela and Norbert J. Delatte

Forensic Engineering Proceedings of the Second Congress
Edited by Paul A. Bosela and Norbert J. Delatte

Other Publications

Paul A. Bosela, Ph.D, P.E. ASCE Fellow - Abbreviated List

Paul Bosela Forensic Engineer

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Limitations of Current Nonlinear Finite Element Methods in Dynamic Anal. of Solar Arrays, P. A. Bosela, The 1989 MSC World Users Conf. Proc., Vol. II, Paper No. 42, March, 1989.
  • Development of a Model of Space Station Solar Array, P. A. Bosela, NASA CR-188911, NAS 1.26:188911 (1990)
  • Dynamic Analysis of Space-Related Linear and Non-Linear Structures, P. A. Bosela, F. J. Shaker and D. Fertis, Computers and Structures, Pergamon Press Ltd., Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 1145-1148 (1992).
  • Grounding of Space Structures, P. A. Bosela, D. Fertis and F. J. Shaker, Computers and Structures, Pergamon Press Ltd., Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 143-153 (1992).
  • A New Pre-Loaded Beam Geometric Stiffness Matrix with Full Rigid Body Capabilities, P.A. Bosela and D. R. Ludwiczak, Computers and Structures, Pergamon Press Ltd., Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 155-163 (1992).
  • Failure of Engineered Facilities: Academia Responds to the Challenge, P. A. Bosela, Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, ASCE, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 140-144 (1993).
  • Current Forensic Courses in Civil Engineering, P. A. Bosela, Proceedings of the 1993 Structures Congress, Irvine, California (1993).
  • Geometric Stiffness Effects on Data Recovery of an Idealized Mast/Blanket Model, P. A. Bosela and D. R. Ludwiczak, Computers and Structures, Pergamon Press Ltd., Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 67-79 (1996)
  • A New Pre-Loaded Membrane Geometric Stiffness Matrix with Full Rigid Body Capabilities, P. A. Bosela and D. R. Ludwiczak, Computers and Structures, Pergamon Press Ltd., Computers and Structures, Pergamon Press Ltd., Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 159-168 (1996)
  • Using Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) to Evaluate the Condition of Subway Tunnel Systems, Delatte, Chen, Maini, Parker, Agrawal, Mylonakis, Subramaniam, Kawaguchi, Bosela, McNeil and Miller, Proceedings of the 3rd Forensic Congress, San Diego, California (2003)
  • Nondestructive Testing for Condition Assessment of Subway Tunnels, Delatte, Chen, Maini, Parker, Agrawal, Mylonakis, Subramanian, Kawaguchi, Bosela, McNeil and Miller, Transportation Research Board National Conference, Washington, D.C. (2004).
  • Cleveland Case Study: Nondestructive Testing for Condition Assessment of Subway Tunnel Using Visual Inspection, Rotary Percussion, Impact-Echo and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods, Bosela, Lek-Udom and Mullangi, presented at poster session at the Transportation Research Board 83rd National Conference, Washington, D.C. (2004).
  • Evaluation of Ground-Penetrating Radar for Detecting Defects in Concrete at Early Ages (05-0936), Lek-Udom, S., Bosela, P., and Delatte, N., presented at poster session at the Transportation Research Board 84th Annual Meeting, January 9-13, 2005.
  • Findings from Workshops on Failure Case Studies in the Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Curriculum,” N. Delatte, P. Bosela, K. Rens, K. Carper, and K. Sutterer, Proceedings of the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 24 – 27, 2007.
  • Love Canal Tragedy, Phillips, Hung, and Bosela, Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, ASCE, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 313-319, Aug 2007.
  • Effect of Steel Slag Replacement on Fresh and Hardened Properties of Concrete (08-1643), Obratil, R., Patel, A., Bosela, P., and Delatte, N., Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting, 13-16 January 2008.
  • Assessing the Impact of Case Studies on the Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Curriculum, Phase II, Delatte, N. J. Bosela, P., Sutton, R., Beasley, W., and Bagaka’s, J., Proceedings of the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 2008.
  • Fresh and Hardened Properties of Paving Concrete with Steel Slag Aggregate, Bosela, P., Delatte, N., Obratil, R., and Patel, A., 9th International Conference on Concrete Pavements, San Francisco, California, August 17-21, 2008.
  • Implementing Forensics and Failures in the Civil Engineering Curriculum, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Forensic Engineering – From Failure to Understanding, London, UK, December 2, 2008.
  • Cryptosporidium Outbreak (Water Treatment Failure): North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Spring 2001, Jameson, Hung, Kuo and Bosela, Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, ASCE, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 342-347, October 2008.
  • Status of Forensic Engineering Education in the United States, Kenneth L. Carper, Norbert J. Delatte, Paul A. Bosela Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Forensic Engineering – From Failure to Understanding, London, UK, December 2, 2008.
  • Examination of Steel Slag as a Replacement for Natural Aggregates in Concrete Paving Mixtures (09-1291), Obratil, R., Pastorelle, M., Bosela, P., and Delatte, N., Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting, January 11-14, 2009.
  • Use of Failure Case Studies in a Construction Management Course, Paul A. Bosela, Indo-U.S. Forensic Practices, Proceedings of the First Indo-US Forensic Engineering Workshop, Trichy, India, Dec. 2010.
  • Use of Failure Case Studies in a Construction Planning and Estimating Course, Proceedings of the 2011 ASCE Structures Congress, Las Vegas, Nevada, April 2011.
  • U.S. and International Perspectives on the Use of Steel Slag Aggregate in Portland Cement Concrete, Fronek, Bosela, and Delatte, January 2012. The presentation was made at the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, and the paper has been accepted for publication in Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (TRR)
  • Another Look at the Collapse of Skyline Plaza at Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia, Schellhammer, Delatte, and Bosela, Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, ASCE, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 354-361, Jun 2013 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000333
  • The 1976 Montreal Olympics: A Case Study of a Project Management Failure, Patel, Bosela, and Delatte, Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, ASCE, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 362-369, June 2013. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000332
  • Use of Failure Case Studies in the Engineering Curriculum: Implementation and Assessment, Bosela, Delatte, and Bagaka’s, presentation at the ASEE North Central Conference in Ada, OH, on March 23-24, 2012.
  • Failure Literacy: the importance of forensics in structural engineering education, Bosela, Delatte, and Bosela, Jr., Ingegneria Forense, Crolli, Affidabilita Structturale E Consolidamento, IF CRASC’15, Rome, Italy, 2015.

Norbert J. Delatte, Ph.D, P.E., ASCE Fellow, ACI Fellow

Norbert Delatte Forensic Engineer

Research Reports

  • Bazzo, J., Delatte, N., Kalabon, A. (2013), Uncontrolled Concrete Bridge Parapet Cracking, State Job No. 134602, Federal agreement number E111176, Ohio Department of Transportation, June 2013.  Posted on the web at http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/SPR/Research/reportsandplans/Reports/2013/Structures/134602_FR.pdf
  • Delatte, N., Miller, D., and Mrkajic, A. (2007) “Field Performance Investigation on Parking Lot and Roadway Pavements: Final Report,” RMC Research & Education Foundation, December 1, 2007.  Online at
    http://www.rmc-foundation.org/images/Long%20Term%20Field%20Performance%20of%20Pervious%20Final%20Report.pdf
  • Norbert Delatte, Eric Mack, and John Cleary, “Evaluation of High Absorptive Materials to Improve Internal Curing of Low Permeability Concrete,” State Job No. 134227, Federal Contract Number 20809, $ 98,702.79, Ohio Department of Transportation, May 2007.  Posted on the web at http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/Research/reportsandplans/Reports/2007/Materials/134227-FR.pdf
  • Peshkin, David G., James E. Bruinsma, Monty J. Wade, and Norbert Delatte, “Accelerated Practices for Airfield Concrete Pavement Construction ” Volume I: Planning Guide, Report IPRF-01-G-002-02-3, Innovative Pavement Research Foundation, Skokie, Illinois, April 2006.  Available on the web at http://www.iprf.org/products/main.html.
  • Peshkin, David G., James E. Bruinsma, Monty J. Wade, and Norbert Delatte, “Accelerated Practices for Airfield Concrete Pavement Construction” Volume II: Case Studies, Report IPRF-01-G-002-02-3, Innovative Pavement Research Foundation, Skokie, Illinois, April 2006.  Available on the web at http://www.iprf.org/products/main.html.
  • Fouad H. Fouad, James S. Davidson, Norbert Delatte, Elizabeth A. Calvert, Shen-en Chen, Edgar Nunez, Ramy Abdalla, “Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaires, and Traffic Signals,” NCHRP Report 494, National Cooperative Highway Research Program, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D. C., 2003.  Available on the web at http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_494.pdf.
  • Delatte, N; Chen, S; Maini, N; Parker, N; Agrawal, A; Mylonakis, G; Subramaniam, K; Kawaguchi, A; Bosela, P; McNeil, S; Miller, R, The Application of Nondestructive Evaluation to Subway Tunnel Systems, Final report for Great Cities Universities Coalition Transportation Initiative Task 008 Maintenance and Management of Transit Infrastructure.  On the web at http://www.eng.uab.edu/cee/GCUTI/GCUTI.htm
  • Norbert Delatte, Nader Amer, and Chris Storey, Improved Management of RCC Pavement Technology, Report No. 01231, the University Transportation Center for Alabama, February, 2003.  Posted on the web at
    http://utca.eng.ua.edu/projects/final_reports/01231-rpt.pdf
  • Norbert Delatte, Shen-en Chen, James Davidson, Anshuman Sehdev, Nader Amer, and Mark Endfinger, Design and Quality Control of Concrete Overlays, Report No. 01220, the University Transportation Center for Alabama, December 31, 2001.  Posted on the web at http://utca.eng.ua.edu/projects/final_reports/01220-RPT.pdf
  • Houssam Toutanji, Andre D. Danson, Norbert Delatte, Supplementary Cementitious Materials to Enhance Bridge Deck Durability, Report No. 00305, the University Transportation Center for Alabama, November 2001.  Posted on the web at http://utca.eng.ua.edu/projects/final_reports/00305-rpt.pdf
  • Norbert J. Delatte, David Eckhoff, Houssam Toutanji, and John McFadden, Transfer of Transportation Management and Safety Technologies, Report No. 00202, the University Transportation Center for Alabama, January 2001.  Posted on the web at http://utca.eng.ua.edu/projects/final_reports/00202report.pdf
  • Norbert J. Delatte, Michael Anderson, Kathleen Leonard, and John McFadden, Development of a Multi-Campus Multidisciplinary Transportation Curriculum for UTCA, Report No. 99249, the University Transportation Center for Alabama, December 2000.  Posted on the web at http://utca.eng.ua.edu/projects/final_reports/99249report.pdf
  • Kathleen M. Leonard, Houssam Toutanji, Michael Anderson, Norbert Delatte, Jeanelle Hodges, Gearing Up for Transportation Engineering, A Summer Institute, Report No. 00304, the University Transportation Center for Alabama, December 2000.  Posted on the web at http://utca.eng.ua.edu/projects/final_reports/00304report.htm
  • Norbert J. Delatte, Mudhar Safarjalani, and Natalie B. Zinger, Concrete Pavement Performance in the Southeastern United States, Report No. 99247, the University Transportation Center for Alabama, September 2000.  Posted on the web at http://utca.eng.ua.edu/projects/final_reports/99247report.pdf
  • Delatte, Norbert J., and Hightower, James, Feasibility Study: Improving Field Predictions of Helical Anchor Capacity, Alabama Power, September 30, 1999
  • Delatte, N. J., Fowler, D. W., and McCullough, B. F., High Early Strength Bonded Concrete Overlay Designs and Construction Methods, Research Report 2911-4, Center for Transportation Research, November 1996.
  • Delatte, N. J., Gräter, S. F., Treviño-Frias, M., Fowler, D. W., and McCullough, B. F., Partial Construction Report of a Bonded Concrete Overlay on IH-10, El Paso, and Guide for Expedited Bonded Concrete Overlay Design and Construction, Research Report 2911-5F, Center for Transportation Research, December 1996.

Referred Journal Publications

  • Kalabon, Amy E., Loescher, Eric S., Sommerville, Alice E., and Delatte, Norbert J. (2013), “Rise and Fall of the Ohio and Erie Canal,” ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, July 2013.
  • Jeffrey Schellhammer; Norbert J. Delatte, and Paul Bosela, “Another Look at the Collapse of Skyline Plaza at Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia,” ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, May/June 2013.  
  • Ashish Patel; Paul Bosela; Norbert J. Delatte, “The 1976 Montreal Olympics: A Case Study of a Project Management Failure,” ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, May/June 2013.  
  • Delatte, N.J., “An Approach to Forensic Engineering Education in the US,” Proceedings of the ICE – Forensic Engineering, ISSN: 2043-9903, E-ISSN: 2043-9911, Institution of Civil Engineers, UK, Volume 165, Issue 3, 1 August 2012, pages 123 – 129.
  • Fronek, B., Bosela, P., and Delatte, N. (2012) “US and International Perspectives on the Use of Steel Slag Aggregate in Portland Cement Concrete,” Geomaterials 2012, Transportation Research Record No. 2267, pp. 37 – 42.
  • Newson, T.A., and Delatte, N.J., (2012) “Case methods in civil engineering teaching,” Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. 38, No. 9, 1016 – 1030.
  • Delatte, N., Mrkajic, A., and Miller, D. (2009) “Field and Laboratory Evaluation of Pervious Concrete Pavements,” Concrete Materials 2009, Transportation Research Record No. 2113, pp. 132 – 139.
  • Cleary, J., and Delatte, N. (2008) “Implementation of Internal Curing in Transportation Concrete,” Concrete Materials, Transportation Research Record No. 2070, pp. 1 – 7.
  • Delatte, N.J. (2006) “Learning from Failures,” Civil Engineering Practice, Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section/ASCE, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 21 – 38, Boston, MA, Fall/Winter 2006.
  • Pearson, C. and Delatte, N. (2006) “The Collapse of the Quebec Bridge, 1907,” ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, February 2006.  
  • Delatte, N., and Storey, C., “Effects of Density and Mixture Proportions on Freeze-Thaw Durability of Roller-Compacted Concrete Pavement,” pp. 45 – 52, Concrete Materials 2005, Transportation Research Record 1914, 2005.
  • Cynthia Pearson and Norbert Delatte, “The Ronan Point Apartment Tower Collapse and its Effect on Building Codes,” ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, Volume 19, Number 2, pp. 172 – 177, May 2005.  
  • Delatte, “A Failure of Cold-Formed Steel Beams during Concrete Placement,” technical note, ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, Volume 19, Number 2, pp. 178 – 181, May 2005.  
  • Delatte, N., “Simplified Design of Roller-Compacted Composite Pavement,” pp. 57 – 65, Pavement Design and Accelerated Testing 2004, Transportation Research Record 1896, 2004.
  • Amer, N., Storey, C., and Delatte, N., “Roller-Compacted Concrete Mix Design Procedure with Gyratory Compactor,” pp. 46 – 52, Concrete 2004, Transportation Research Record 1893, 2004.
  • Suzanne King and Norbert Delatte, “Collapse of 2000 Commonwealth Avenue: A Punching Shear Case Study,” ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, pp. 54 – 61, Vol. 18, No. 1, February 2004.
  • Delatte, N., “Undergraduate Summer Research in Structural Engineering,” ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, pp. 37 – 43, Vol. 130, No. 1, January 2004.
  • H. Toutanji, N. Delatte, S. Aggoun, R. Duval, A. Danson, “Effect of supplementary cementitious materials on the compressive strength and durability of short-term cured concrete,” Cement and Concrete Research Vol. 34 No. 2 (2004) pp. 311 – 319.
  • Siswobusono, P; Chen, S-E; Jones, S; Callahan, D; Grimes, T; Delatte, N, “Serviceability-Based Dynamic Load Rating of a LT20 Bridge,” Experimental Techniques, Vol. 28 No. 6, Society for Experimental Mechanics, 2004.
  • Delatte, N; Chen, S; Maini, N; Parker, N; Agrawal, A; Mylonakis, G; Subramaniam, K; Kawaguchi, A; Bosela, P; McNeil, S; Miller, R, “Application of Nondestructive Evaluation to Subway Tunnels,” pp. 127-135, Design of Structures 2003, Transportation Research Record 1845, 2003.
  • Delatte, Norbert, and Anshuman Sehdev, “Mechanical Properties and Durability of Bonded-Concrete Overlays and Ultrathin Whitetopping Concrete,” p. 16, Concrete 2003: Materials and Construction, Transportation Research Record 1834, 2003.
  • Nader Amer, Norbert Delatte, and Chris Storey, “Using Gyratory Compaction to Investigate Density and Mechanical Properties of Roller-Compacted Concrete,” p. 77, Concrete 2003: Materials and Construction, Transportation Research Record 1834, 2003.
  • Delatte, “Using the LTPP Database in a Pavement Design Course,” ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Vol. 128, No. 4, October 2002.
  • Delatte, “Agricultural Product Loads and Warehouse Failures,” ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, Vol. 16, No. 3, August 2002.
  • Norbert J. Delatte and Kevin L. Rens, “Forensics and Case Studies in Civil Engineering Education: State-of-the-Art,” ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, Vol. 16, No. 3, August, 2002.  This paper was invited by the editor.  
  • Delatte, N.J., “Lessons from Roman Cement and Concrete,” ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice, Vol. 127, No. 3, July 2001.  Awarded the journal’s 2000 – 2001 Best Paper Award.
  • Martin, Rachel, and Delatte, Norbert, ¿Another Look at the Hartford Civic Center Coliseum Collapse,¿ ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, Vol. 15, No. 1, February 2001.  Awarded the journal¿s 2001 Best Paper Award.
  • Martin, Rachel, and Delatte, Norbert, “Another Look at the L’Ambiance Plaza Collapse,” ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, Vol. 14. No. 4, November 2000, and closure of discussion to above paper, ASCE Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, Vol. 16 No. 1, February, 2002.
  • Delatte, N. J., Wade, D. M., and Fowler, D. W., “Laboratory and Field Testing of Concrete Bond Development for Expedited Bonded Concrete Overlays,” ACI Materials Journal, May-June 2000.
  • Delatte, N. J., Williamson, M. Scott, and Fowler, David W., “Bond Strength Gain with Maturity of High Early Strength Bonded Concrete Overlays,” ACI Materials Journal, March-April 2000.
  • Delatte, N. J., Fowler, D. F., McCullough, B. F., and Gräter, S. F., “Investigating Performance of Bonded Concrete Overlays,” ASCE Journal of the Performance of Constructed Facilities, Vol. 12 No. 2, May 1998.
  • Delatte, N. J., “Failure Case Studies and Engineering Ethics in Engineering Mechanics Courses,” ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice Vol. 123 No. 3, July 1997, and closure of discussion to above paper, ASCE Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice Vol. 124 No. 4, October 1998.
  • Delatte, N. J., Fowler, D. W., and McCullough, B. F., “Criteria for Opening Expedited Bonded Concrete Overlays to Traffic,” p. 103, Advances in Concrete and Concrete Pavement Construction, Transportation Research Record 1574, 1997.
  • Delatte, N. J., Fowler, D. W., and McCullough, B. F., “Full-Scale Test of High Early Strength Bonded Concrete Overlay Designs and Construction Methods,” pp. 9-16, Portland Cement Concrete Pavements, Bridges, and Quality Management, Transportation Research Record 1544, 1996.

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  • Failure Literacy: the importance of forensics in structural engineering education, Bosela, Delatte, and Bosela, Jr., Ingegneria Forense, Crolli, Affidabilita Structturale E Consolidamento, IF CRASC’15, Rome, Italy, 2015
  • Tropicana Parking Garage Collapse, Bosela, Jr., Bosela Sr., Eighth Congress on Forensic Engineering, Austin, TX, 2018.  Tropicana Parking Garage Collapse – ASCE Library