Buitrago, Manuel; Makoond, Nirvan Chandra; Adam, Jose M.(Springer Cham, 2023-06-07)
[EN] The protection of buildings and infrastructures from extreme abnormal events due to natural hazards (e.g. hurricanes, floods), accidents (e.g. vehicle impact, gas explosions, unexpected failure due to poor design or ...
[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 ...
[EN] Assessing the likelihood of progressive collapse in buildings resulting from the local failure of individual structural elements is challenging, especially in steel buildings. Engineers invest significant effort in ...
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 ...
[EN] Several catastrophic building collapses1¿5 occur because of the propagation of local-initial failures6,7. Current design methods attempt to completely prevent collapse after initial failures by improving connectivity ...
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 ...
Adam, Jose M.; Buitrago, Manuel; Makoond, Nirvan Chandra(University of Cantabria, 2022-09-15)
[ES] Los últimos años han estado marcados por un número cada vez más elevado de estudios sobre el colapso progresivo y la robustez estructural como consecuencia de la persistente aparición y aparentemente creciente frecuencia ...
Makoond, Nirvan Chandra; Buitrago, Manuel; Adam, José M.(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-09-02)
[EN] Although recent years have been marked by a substantial research effort on the progressive collapse of frame structures, precast reinforced concrete (RC) structures have been the subject of fewer studies when compared ...
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 ...