Seismic and progressive collapse assessment of new proposed steel connection

• Main Author: Faridmehr, Iman
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/54726/1/ImanFaridmehrPFKA2015.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/54726/; http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:94676
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The disastrous consequences of the partial collapse of the Ronan Point apartment in 1968 and Northridge earthquake in 1994, exposed the vulnerability of steel moment frames subjected to extreme loading. The reports of these two catastrophic events revealed the significant role of beam to column conn...