Investigation into resilience of precast concrete floors against progressive collapse

• Main Authors: Qian, Kai, Li, Bing
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Load-Resisting Mechanism; Monolithic Connection; DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105450; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48690; http://dx.doi.org/10.14359/51710878
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The casualties and economic loss in historic events have revealed that progressive collapse performance of buildings has to be evaluated in structural design to prevent such disastrous events. Integrity and resilience are important characteristics for buildings to prevent total collapse or dispropor...