Research and practice on progressive collapse and robustness of building structures in the 21st century

JM Adam, F Parisi, J Sagaseta, X Lu - Engineering Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
Extreme events (ie terrorist attacks, vehicle impacts, explosions, etc.) often cause local
damage to building structures and pose a serious threat when one or more vertical load …

Experimental investigation of the progressive collapse of reinforced concrete structures: An overview

IMH Alshaikh, BHA Bakar, EAH Alwesabi, HM Akil - Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
The progressive collapse of reinforced concrete (RC) structures is a structural failure caused
by abnormal loads. It starts as a local failure, followed by a sequential reaction that may …

Numerical investigations on static and dynamic responses of reinforced concrete sub-assemblages under progressive collapse

AT Pham, KH Tan, J Yu - Engineering Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
To study the effect of blast pressure on structural resistance against progressive collapse
under column removal scenario induced by contact detonation, and to investigate the …

Effect of concrete masonry infill walls on progressive collapse performance of reinforced concrete infilled frames

J Yu, YP Gan, J Wu, H Wu - Engineering structures, 2019 - Elsevier
In practice, infilled frame is a common structure but the contribution of infill walls is typically
ignored in previous research on progressive collapse. To this end, numerical models based …

Prediction of catenary action capacity of RC beam-column substructures under a missing column scenario using evolutionary algorithm

I Azim, J Yang, MF Iqbal, Z Mahmood, MF Javed… - KSCE Journal of Civil …, 2021 - Springer
Catenary action plays crucial role in resisting the applied vertical load at large deformations
stage in reinforced concrete (RC) structures. This paper aims to predict the catenary action …

Effects of loading regimes on the structural behavior of RC beam-column sub-assemblages against disproportionate collapse

K Qian, SY Geng, SL Liang, F Fu, J Yu - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The majority of previous quasi-static tests on disproportionate collapse simulated the column
removal through applying concentrated load/displacement on the top of the removed column …

Numerical study of progressive collapse resistance of RC beam-slab substructures under perimeter column removal scenarios

J Yu, L Luo, Y Li - Engineering Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper high fidelity solid-element-based numerical models are used to study the
progressive collapse resistance of reinforced concrete (RC) beam-slab substructures. This is …

Progressive collapse resistance of emulative precast concrete frames with various reinforcing details

K Qian, SL Liang, F Fu, Y Li - Journal of Structural Engineering, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
In this paper, three precast concrete (PC) frames and one cast-in-situ reinforced-concrete
(RC) frame were cast and tested to investigate the load-resisting mechanisms of emulative …

Precast RC structures' progressive collapse resistance: Current knowledge and future requirements

IMH Alshaikh, AA Abadel, M Alrubaidi - Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Precast construction has received a lot of interest over the last few decades. Among the
advantageous aspects of precast structures are superior quality, faster construction, and …

Experimental and numerical investigation on progressive collapse resistance of post-tensioned precast concrete beam-column subassemblages

K Qian, SL Liang, DC Feng, F Fu… - Journal of Structural …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Abstract In this paper, four 1/2 scaled precast concrete (PC) beam-column subassemblages
with high-performance connection were tested under push-down loading procedure to study …