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 …

Damage prediction of concrete gravity dams subjected to underwater explosion shock loading

G Wang, S Zhang - Engineering failure analysis, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The damage prediction of concrete gravity dams under blast loads has gained importance in
recent years due to the great number of accidental events and terrorist bombing attacks that …

Damage evaluation of H-section steel columns under impulsive blast loads via gene expression programming

M Momeni, MA Hadianfard, C Bedon, A Baghlani - Engineering Structures, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Increasing terrorist attacks towards ordinary or strategic buildings and soft targets represent
one of the major impetus to improve existing methods of design for blast-resistant structures …

Spatial reliability analysis of explosive blast load damage to reinforced concrete columns

Y Shi, MG Stewart - Structural safety, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Columns are the key load-bearing elements in frame structures and exterior columns are
probably the most vulnerable structural components to terrorist attack. In this paper, a spatial …

A refreshing view of soft computing models for predicting the deflection of reinforced concrete beams

C Bai, H Nguyen, PG Asteris, T Nguyen-Thoi… - Applied Soft …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The efforts of this study are to address an essential technical issue in construction and civil
engineering, namely predicting the deflection of reinforced concrete beams. Indeed, six new …

The impact of construction quality on the safety of prefabricated multi-family dwellings

P Knyziak - Engineering Failure Analysis, 2019‏ - Elsevier
This study presents analysis of the safety of prefabricated buildings utilizing concrete large-
panel technology in the context of building failures as a result of exceptional loads and in the …

Reliability analysis of H-section steel columns under blast loading

MA Hadianfard, S Malekpour, M Momeni - Structural Safety, 2018‏ - Elsevier
In order to prevent structural collapse by terrorist attacks, the column behavior is highlighted
since when a column is damaged consequently losing its load bearing capacity, failure will …

An efficient reliability-based approach for evaluating safe scaled distance of steel columns under dynamic blast loads

M Momeni, C Bedon, MA Hadianfard, A Baghlani - Buildings, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Damage to building load-bearing members (especially columns) under explosions and
impact are critical issues for structures, given that they may cause a progressive collapse …

Probabilistic progressive collapse analysis of steel frame structures against blast loads

Y Ding, X Song, HT Zhu - Engineering Structures, 2017‏ - Elsevier
This study investigates the failure probability of steel frame structures against terrorist attack
from Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (VBIED). A two-step approach is used to …

Damage and risk assessment for reinforced concrete wall panels subjected to explosive blast loading

Y Shi, MG Stewart - International Journal of Impact Engineering, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The structural integrity of reinforced concrete (RC) structures in blast events is important for
critical facilities. In this paper, a structural reliability analysis is conducted to predict the …