Use of Steel Tendons in Designing Progressive Collapse-Resistant Reinforced Concrete Frames
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 31, Issue 4
Abstract
The term “progressive collapse” refers to the spread of an initial local failure of a structural component in a chain of reactions leading to a partial or global collapse of the building. To design safer structures, the current research proposes the novel idea of applying concrete beams with bonded tendons to prevent progressive collapse caused by instantaneous column removal of reinforced concrete multistory moment resisting frames (MRFs). To evaluate this approach, both nonlinear static and dynamic analyses have been carried out to assess the vulnerability of 3-, 5-, and 8-story reinforced-concrete frames subjected to sudden central-column-loss scenarios at different elevation locations in the absence of tendons. Afterward, the effect of using high-strength bonded tendons in concrete beams of the stories with high potential for progressive collapse has been investigated on the load-carrying capacity of beams and structural stability enhancement. Results show that the proposed approach could be applied as an efficient procedure for progressive collapse-resistant design of reinforced concrete multistory MRFs.
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Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 31 • Issue 4 • August 2017
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©2017 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Sep 30, 2015
Accepted: Nov 8, 2016
Published ahead of print: Feb 15, 2017
Published online: Feb 16, 2017
Discussion open until: Jul 16, 2017
Published in print: Aug 1, 2017
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