Membrane actions of RC slabs in mitigating progressive collapse of building structures

Engineering Structures

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 107-115

  Dat, Pham Xuan ^a   Hai, Tan Kang ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis; Large deformations; Membrane actions; Penultimate column loss; Progressive collapse; Reinforced concrete building structures; Reinforced concrete slabs

Indexed keywords

BUILDING STRUCTURE; COLUMN LOSS; MEMBRANE BEHAVIOURS; PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE; ROTATIONAL RESTRAINTS; SUDDEN COLUMN LOSS; TENSILE MEMBRANE; TENSILE MEMBRANE ACTION;

CONCRETE BUILDINGS; CONCRETE SLABS; CONCRETES; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MEMBRANES; REINFORCED CONCRETE; REINFORCEMENT;

STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS;

BUILDING; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADING; MEMBRANE; REINFORCED CONCRETE;

EID: 84886408301     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2011.08.039     Document Type: Article

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