Progressive Collapse Simulation of Vulnerable Reinforced Concrete Buildings

摘要: There are many vulnerable reinforced concrete (RC) buildings located in earthquake-prone areas around the world. These characterized by lack of seismic details and corresponding non-ductile behavior significant potential partial global collapse. One current challenges earthquake engineering profession research communities is identification such determination effective economical retrofit methods for response enhancement. Identification these not a trivial task due to various sources large number involved uncertainty. Furthermore, accurate collapse-prone important from an perspective. Unfortunately, there enough resources all that have symptoms collapse potential. In order use available monetary manner, should be accurately reliably ranked identify those most This chapter intends provide contribution collapse-vulnerable RC discussing existing literature exploring needs related (a) gravity load failure modeling (b) consideration different uncertainty efficient manner.