[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] 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 ...

[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 ...

[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 ...

[EN] Although recent years have been marked by a substantial research effort on the progressive collapse of steel as well as cast-in-place and precast concrete structures, the fact is that almost all studies are focused ...

[EN] Our previous work on precast construction has shown that sufficient structural robustness can be achieved by adequately designing the connection detailing to withstand a sudden column removal under the accidental load ...

[EN] The world has seen a surge in rigorous study efforts on the progressive collapse of structures in the past few decades. These events have led to new standards and provisions in building codes of practice, many of which ...

[EN] Widely used simplified analytical methods for estimating the tensile force in tie-rods are clearly not applicable when they contain significant discontinuities or irregularities. A common example for which this fact ...

[EN] Although many analytical and experimental studies have been carried out to date on the progressive collapse and robustness of cast-in-place reinforced concrete (RC) and steel building structures, very few experimental ...

[EN] As modern society faces unprecedented challenges related to climate stability and conflict, the need to design more sustainable and resilient buildings is undeniable. Several studies show that building with precast ...