Italy Tower Collapse in São José do Rio Preto - São Paulo - Brazil
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Fernando Rebouças Stucchi
(Civil Engineer - EGT Engenharia; Full Professor - Polytechnic School - USP - São Paulo - Brazil)
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Congress: Challenges in Design and Construction of an Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment, Stockholm, Sweden, 21-23 September 2016 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Stockholm, 2016 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 853-861 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 9 | ||||
| Year: | 2016 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/stockholm.2016.0840 | ||||
| Abstract: |
This paper discusses the collapse of Italy Tower, a 16-storey building, that fall down 10 years after construction, with 10 floors upside down in a lateral street. The designed structure and the structure as built were verified and a possible and probable cause was identified. |
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| Keywords: |
high-rise buildings collapse columns brittle failure piles transition
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