[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 ...
[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 ...
Adam, Jose M.; Buitrago, Manuel; Makoond, Nirvan Chandra; Setiawan, Andri; Caredda, Giacomo; Marín-Vilches, Lorenzo; Cetina-Berdugo, Diego Fernando; Gerbaudo, Maria Luz; Oliver, Marina; Sempertegui, Geovanny(Universidad de Cantabria, 2024-05-10)
[EN] The use of precast concrete structures is rapidly increasing worldwide because of their advantages in terms of quality, safety, sustainability, and speed of construction. In the field of progressive collapse of ...
Adam, Jose M.; Buitrago, Manuel; Makoond, Nirvan Chandra; Setiawan, Andri; Caredda, Giacomo; Marin-Vilches, Lorenzo; Cetina-Berdugo, Diego Fernando; Gerbaudo, Maria Luz; Oliver, Marina; Sempertegui, Geovanny; Tasquer-Val, Daniel(2023-12-01)
[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 ...
Cetina-Berdugo, Diego Fernando; Setiawan, Andri; Makoond, Nirvan Chandra; Buitrago, Manuel; Adam, Jose M.(Universidad de Cantabria, 2024-05-10)
[EN] The progressive collapse of reinforced concrete (RC) structures involves a series of complex loadresisting
mechanisms, including flexural, arching and catenary actions, among others. A detailed model
comprised of ...
Makoond, Nirvan Chandra; Setiawan, Andri; Orton, Sarah L.; Adam, Jose M.(Elsevier, 2024-03)
[EN] Research performed on the progressive collapse of reinforced concrete buildings has led to the development of several design approaches relying on sufficient continuity reinforcement to provide alternative load paths ...