Abnormal Loading on Structures

Abnormal Loading on Structures
Author: K. S. Virdi
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2000-04-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780419259602

Designing for hazardous and abnormal loads has become an important requirement in the design process of most major buildings and civil engineering structures, ranging from tall buildings to bridges, power plants to harbour and coastal installations. This state-of-the-art volume was compiled by the Institution of Structural Engineers' informal study group Model Analysis as a Design Tool and City University's Structures Research Centre. It contains a series of papers on the design and analysis of structures through full scale and numerical modelling including the crucial areas of hazard identification and risk assessment of structures. This book will be essential reading for civil and structural engineers, designers and researchers.

Progressive Collapse of Structures

Progressive Collapse of Structures
Author: Uwe Starossek
Publisher: ICE Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780727761682

Progressive Collapse of Structures, Second edition provides structural engineers with the practical and systematic frameworks they need to anticipate the risk of progressive and/or disproportionate collapse, and to apply this knowledge to the design of new structures as well as the retrofit design of existing structures.

Blast Effects on Buildings

Blast Effects on Buildings
Author: Geoffrey Mays
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1995
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780727720306

This guide is aimed at all engineers and architects involved in building design, focusing on the importance of constructing buildings which minimise damage to people and property in the event of an explosion.

Failures in Concrete Structures

Failures in Concrete Structures
Author: Robin Whittle
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0203861272

This book presents a selection of the author‘s firsthand experience with incidents related to reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, helping readers gain an understanding of errors that can occur in order to avoid making them. He includes mistakes discovered at the design stage, ones that led to failures, and some that involved partial structure collapse all of which required remedial action to ensure safety. The book focuses on specific incidents that occurred at various points in the construction process, including mistakes related to structural misunderstanding, extrapolation of codes of practice, and poor construction.

Structural Design for Physical Security

Structural Design for Physical Security
Author: Task Committee on Structural Design for Physical Security
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780784474747

Prepared by the Task Committee on Structural Design for Physical Security of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. This report provides guidance to structural engineers in the design of civil structures to resist the effects of terrorist bombings. As dramatized by the bombings of the World Trade Center in New York City and the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, civil engineers today need guidance on designing structures to resist hostile acts. The U.S. military services and foreign embassy facilities developed requirements for their unique needs, but these the documents are restricted. Thus, no widely available document exists to provide engineers with the technical data necessary to design civil structures for enhanced physical security. The unrestricted government information included in this report is assembled collectively for the first time and rephrased for application to civilian facilities. Topics include: determination of the threat, methods by which structural loadings are derived for the determined threat, the behavior and selection of structural systems, the design of structural components, the design of security doors, the design of utility openings, and the retrofitting of existing structures. This report transfers this technology to the civil sector and provides complete methods, guidance, and references for structural engineers challenged with a physical security problem.

Abnormal Loading on Structures

Abnormal Loading on Structures
Author: K. S. Virdi
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2000-04-27
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1482272261

Designing for hazardous and abnormal loads has become an important requirement in the design process of most major buildings and civil engineering structures, ranging from tall buildings to bridges, power plants to harbour and coastal installations. This state-of-the-art volume was compiled by the Institution of Structural Engineers' informal study

Buildings and Structures Under Extreme Loads

Buildings and Structures Under Extreme Loads
Author: Chiara Bedon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 9783039435708

Exceptional loads on buildings and structures may have different causes, including high-strain dynamic effects due to natural hazards, man-made attacks, and accidents, as well as extreme operational conditions (severe temperature variations, humidity, etc.). All of these aspects can be critical for specific structural typologies and/or materials that are particularly sensitive to external conditions. In this regard, dedicated and refined methods are required for their design, analysis, and maintenance under the expected lifetime. There are major challenges related to the structural typology and material properties with respect to the key features of the imposed design load. Further issues can be derived from the need for risk mitigation or retrofit of existing structures as well as from the optimal and safe design of innovative materials/systems. Finally, in some cases, no appropriate design recommendations are available and, thus, experimental investigations can have a key role within the overall process. In this Special Issue, original research studies, review papers, and experimental and/or numerical investigations are presented for the structural performance assessment of buildings and structures under various extreme conditions that are of interest for design.