Building Component Degradation Analysis using FMEA

Construction industry in India is booming with new projects coming in, growth in GDP and so on; but on other hand, neglecting the existing assets and not maintaining them to appropriate serviceability, this may be due to negligence or unavailability of funds or insufficient literacy about component degradation. The degradation of building components occur due to various factors as physical, chemical and environmental actions. These factors degrade building components over the life of the structure reducing serviceability. In order to maintain the building component in serviceable condition it is necessary to study the degradation process and root causes. This study utilizes; the Failure Mode Effect Analysis method to find out the possible failure modes and their causes as well as effects. In this study eight buildings at an interval of three years were selected and components were studied to find out causes and their effects, through the analysis the event driven graphs for these components are plotted, which will help understand the failure process of building components.