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Design for Extreme Events – Progressive Collapse

 Design for Extreme Events – Progressive Collapse
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Presented at 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008, published in , pp. 370-371
DOI: 10.2749/222137908796293055
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The current position concerning design against progressive collapse is summarised and the need to move from a prescriptive approach to a quantitative analytical framework is explained. Necessary an...
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Author(s):
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: 17th IABSE Congress: Creating and Renewing Urban Structures – Tall Buildings, Bridges and Infrastructure, Chicago, USA, 17-19 September 2008
Published in:
Page(s): 370-371 Total no. of pages: 7
Page(s): 370-371
Total no. of pages: 7
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.2749/222137908796293055
Abstract:

The current position concerning design against progressive collapse is summarised and the need to move from a prescriptive approach to a quantitative analytical framework is explained. Necessary and desirable features of such a framework are presented. Reference is made to an approach currently under development at Imperial College London that includes all of these features.

Keywords:
structural design robustness progressive collapse failure buildings