Abstract:Since the collapse of the Ronan Point apartment, extensive efforts have been devoted to developing numerical models for assessing the vulnerability of buildings against progressive collapse. The existing numerical models are largely deterministic, where the uncertainties in structural behavior are not considered. This study presents a stochastic numerical model of progressive collapse of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. In the proposed model, each structural component, such as beam, column, beam-column join… Show more
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