US Army Centrifuge

Vanadit-Ellis, W.; Gran, J.K.; Vaughan, D.

US Army Centrifuge

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

Conference paper (2012)

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W. Vanadit-Ellis

J.K. Gran

D. Vaughan

Centrifuge Concrete structure Progressive collapse

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05-06-2012

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Abstract

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 columns around one corner at the 1st story were explosively removed while the model was spinning in the centrifuge at 18 g. The column removal resulted in complete collapse the bays above those columns but collapse did not progress to the rest of the structure.

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