Response of a reinforced concrete infilled-frame structure to removal of two adjacent columns

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2478-2491

  Sasani, Mehrdad ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brittle failure; Dynamic response; Load redistribution; Load resistance; Nonlinear analysis; Progressive collapse

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; BUILDING MATERIALS; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REINFORCED CONCRETE; REINFORCEMENT; RELIABILITY; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; STRUCTURAL FRAMES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

ANALYTICAL MODELLING; ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BEAM SECTIONS; BRITTLE FAILURE; COLUMN REMOVAL; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE-ELEMENT METHODS; FLEXURAL WAVE; FRAME STRUCTURES; GRAVITY LOADS; INFILL WALLS; LOAD REDISTRIBUTION; LOAD RESISTANCE; LOCAL DEFORMATIONS; MODES OF FAILURE; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE; PULL-OUT; REINFORCING BARS; SAN DIEGO; SIMULTANEOUS REMOVAL; TENSILE REINFORCEMENT; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

BRITTLE FAILURE; COLLAPSE; COLUMN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLEXURE; LOADING TEST; MULTISTOREY BUILDING; REINFORCED CONCRETE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 50149086914     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.01.019     Document Type: Article

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