Are the frail designed to fail? Assessing the collapse risk of existing structures

• Main Authors: Li, Bing, Qian, Kai
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Structures and design
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99725; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24049
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The catastrophic after-effects of the historical collapse events have received considerable attention from government agencies, research communities, and practical engineers on the aspect of the evaluation of the risk of progressive collapse of buildings. In the recent decade, numerous studies ha...