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Apr 26, 2012
Behavior of Varied Steel Frame Connection Types Subjected to Air Blast, Debris Impact, and/or Post-Blast Progressive Collapse Load Conditions
Authors: Jesse E. Karns [email protected], David L. Houghton [email protected], Jong-Kook Hong, Ph.D., and Joonghwan KimAuthor Affiliations
Publication: Structures Congress 2009: Don't Mess with Structural Engineers: Expanding Our Role
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In response past terrorist events and to actions required by executive order, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), Office of the Chief Architect (OCA), designed and executed a steel frame bomb blast and progressive collapse (PC) test program (2004–2007) ["the GSA Test Program"]; enhanced by its integration into the `Discrete Leto' Blast Effects Test Series conducted by the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), to experimentally evaluate the behavior of varied beam-to-column connection types subjected to such severe loading events. The broad objective of the GSA Test Program was to develop appropriate PC design criteria for steel frame construction, including identification of desirable connection characteristics for blast and PC mitigation that result in reliable high-capacity performance.
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Blasting effects
- Connections (structural)
- Continuum mechanics
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering mechanics
- Failure loads
- Failure modes
- Forensic engineering
- Frames
- Material failures
- Materials characterization
- Materials engineering
- Progressive collapse
- Solid mechanics
- Static loads
- Statics (mechanics)
- Steel frames
- Structural behavior
- Structural dynamics
- Structural engineering
- Structural failures
- Structural members
- Structural systems
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MHP, Inc., 4500 East Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 100, Long Beach, California 90804. E-mail: [email protected]
MHP, Inc., 4500 East Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 100, Long Beach, California 90804. E-mail: [email protected]
Jong-Kook Hong, Ph.D.
MHP, Inc., 4500 East Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 100, Long Beach, California 90804
Joonghwan Kim
MHP, Inc., 4500 East Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 100, Long Beach, California 90804
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