US Army Centrifuge: Progressive collapse testing of a 4-story reinforced concrete structure at 1/18-Scale

A 1/18-scale model of a 4-story reinforced concrete structure was tested at 18 g in the US Army Centrifuge to support the development of computational modeling of progressive collapse of multi-story buildings. The model structure was 4 bays long and 3 bays wide with column spacing about 33 cm in each directions and story height of 20.3 cm. Three...

Application of Probabilistic Robustness Framework: Risk Assessment of Multi-Storey Buildings under Extreme Loading

Risk assessment is a requirement for robustness design of high consequence class structures, yet very little guidance is offered in practice for performing this type of assessment. This paper demonstrates the application of the probabilistic risk assessment framework arising from COST Action TU0601 to multi-storey buildings subject to extr eme...

Dragende gevelelementen: Het voorkomen van progressieve collapse bij gebouwen zonder kern in geprefabriceerd beton (dragende gevelelementen en TT-vloerelementen)