[EN] Building progressive collapse is currently one of the hottest topics in the structural engineering field. Most of the research carried out to date on this topic has been focused on the structural analysis of the failure ...
Caredda, Giacomo; Porcu, M. Cristina; Buitrago, Manuel; Bertolesi, Elisa; Adam, Jose M(Elsevier, 2022-07)
[EN] Many of the steel bridge collapses occur in truss-type bridges. This is, in fact, the focus of this study involving an assessment of the robustness of this type of structures based on an actual bridge that the authors ...
Pérez Esteban, Francisco Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-12-28)
[EN] Al parc eòlic "Abuela de Santa Ana" en la localitat de Pozo Lorente (Albacete), es va produir el col·lapse sobtat de un aerogenerador tipus GE Energy 1.5 als pocs messos de la seua instalación. El col·lapse es va ...
Buitrago, Manuel; Sagaseta, Juan; Adam, Jose M(Elsevier, 2020-02-01)
[EN] The risk of structural failure of buildings can be significant during construction. Temporary adjustable telescopic steel shores or props are commonly used in building construction. The failure of shores is sudden and ...
Buitrago, Manuel; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Moragues, Juan J; Adam, Jose M(Thomas Telford Ltd., 2023-03)
[EN] This paper contains a summary of the experience obtained by ICITECH's researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València in the last thirty years of investigating reinforced concrete (RC) building structures under ...
[EN] Over the past few decades, increasing awareness of the need for more resilient infrastructure has led to a great increase in the amount of research being performed on the progressive collapse and structural robustness ...
Buitrago Moreno, Manuel(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-02-23)
[EN] Mainly, to economize the construction process of building structures and slabs using successive levels of shoring, two strategies are adopted. On the one hand, it tries to reduce the time spent in each of the construction ...
Buitrago, Manuel; Adam Martínez, José Miguel; Alvarado Vargas, Yezid Alexander; Moragues, Juan J; Gasch, Isabel; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio(Elsevier, 2016-03)
This paper describes a computer tool for calculating and validating loads on floor slabs and shores in the
construction of multistorey buildings with in situ casting. Its chief novelty lies in its optimization unit,
designed ...
Adam, Jose M; Buitrago, Manuel; Bertolesi, Elisa; Sagaseta, Juan; Moragues, Juan J(Elsevier, 2020-05-01)
[EN] The topic of robustness and progressive collapse of structures has attracted significant attention within the field of structural engineering recently. This is reflected by the rise in the number of scientific papers ...
Garzon-Roca, Julio; Sagaseta, Juan; Buitrago, Manuel; Adam, Jose M(American Concrete Institute, 2021-01-03)
[EN] A dynamic punching shear model is presented for general sudden column removal cases which was validated against data from a purpose-built full-scale two-storey reinforced concrete building subjected to a sudden corner ...
Alvarado Vargas, Yezid Alexander; Torres Górriz, Benjamín; Buitrago, Manuel; Ruiz, Daniel M.; Torres, Sergio Y.; Álvarez, Ramón A.(Techno-Press, 2022-02-10)
[EN] This study aimed to analyze the dynamic punching shear performance of slab-column joints under cyclic loads with the use of double-hooked end (5D) steel fibers. Structural systems such as slab-column joints are widely ...
Oliver Cano, Marina; Buitrago, M; Paya-Zaforteza, Ignacio; Adam Martínez, José Miguel(Elsevier, 2016)
Eduardo Torroja was one of the most innovative structural engineers of the 20th century. His legacy can be seen in the form of some of his remaining works and the memory of others that have now disappeared. Torroja s ...
Bertolesi, Elisa; Buitrago, Manuel; Giordano, Ersilia; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Moragues, Juan J; Clementi, Francesco; Adam, Jose M(Elsevier, 2020-07-10)
[EN] This paper presents the experimental results obtained from tests on a 2/3 scale U-shaped masonry building constructed in one of the ICITECH laboratories at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain). The prototype ...
Buitrago, Manuel; Sagaseta, Juan; Adam, Jose M(Elsevier, 2018-10)
[EN] The most frequently used technique to construct reinforced concrete (RC) building structures is the shoring or propping of successive floors, in which the slabs are supported by the shores until the concrete acquires ...
Buitrago, M; Adam Martínez, José Miguel; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Moragues Terrades, Juan José; Alvarado Vargas, Yezid Alexander(Ernst und Sohn, 2016-09)
When constructing reinforced concrete (RC) building structures, knowing the loads to which the shoring system will be subjected during the entire process is one of the key aspects to ensure safety during the work. Although ...
Pérez Soler, Clara(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-07-13)
[ES] El presente trabajo final de máster se enfoca en la simulación numérica de un edificio de dos alturas y 2x2 vanos, construido con hormigón armado. Se va a estudiar la respuesta estructural y la robustez frente a eventos ...
Navarro Magro, Sandra(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-02-08)
[ES] El presente trabajo final de máster se enfoca en la simulación numérica de un edificio de dos alturas y 2x2 vanos, construido con hormigón armado, que dispone de tabiques de fachada en el piso superior. Se va a estudiar ...
Bertolesi, Elisa; Buitrago, Manuel; Adam, Jose M; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio(Elsevier, 2021-07)
[EN] This paper describes a double experimental and analytical study of the fatigue behaviour of the Quisi and Ferrandet Bridges, twin 170 m long steel railway bridges constructed between 1913 and 1915 with typical Pratt ...
Buitrago, Manuel; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Moragues, Juan J; Oliver, Marina; Adam, Jose M.(International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2022-09-14)
[ES] La construcción de edificios con estructura de hormigón armado se realiza, habitualmente, con la ayuda de puntales metálicos que se encargan de transmitir las cargas de las plantas recién hormigonadas a las inferiores. ...