Structural behavior of reinforced concrete frames subjected to progressive collapse

• Main Author: Yu, Jun
• Other Authors: Tan Kang Hai
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Structures and design
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/50677
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

With the threat of terrorist attack looming large, the ability of a building to mitigate progressive collapse is of key interest to government agencies. Alternate load path (ALP) approach is one of the direct methods to assess progressive collapse resistance by introducing a column removal scenario....