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Methods for progressive collapse analysis of building structures under blast and impact loads

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Progressive collapse of building structures under blast and impact loads has attracted great attention all over the world. Progressive collapse analysis is essential for an economic and safe design of building structures against progressive collapse to blast and impact loads. Because of the catastrophic nature of progressive collapse and the potentially high cost of constructing or retrofitting buildings to resist it, it is imperative that the progressive collapse analysis methods be reliable. For engineers, their methodology to carry out progressive collapse evaluation need not only be accurate and concise, but also be easily used and works fast. Thus, many researchers have been spending lots of effort in developing reliable, efficient and straightforward progressive collapse analysis methods recently. In the present paper, current progressive collapse analysis methods available in the literature are reviewed. Their suitability, applicability and reliability are discussed. Our recent proposed new method for progressive collapse analysis of reinforced concrete frames under blast loads is also introduced.

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  1. School of Civil Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China

    Zhongxian Li  (李忠献) & Yanchao Shi  (师燕超)

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Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.50638030 and No.50528808) and National Key Technologies R&D Program of China(No.2006BAJ13B02).

LI Zhongxian, born in 1961, male, Dr, Prof, Cheung Kong Scholar.

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Li, Z., Shi, Y. Methods for progressive collapse analysis of building structures under blast and impact loads. Trans. Tianjin Univ. 14, 329–339 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12209-008-0056-0

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