How can a steel structure survive to impact loading? Numerical and analytical investigations

[en] Recent events such as natural catastrophes or terrorism attacks have highlighted the necessity to ensure the structural integrity of buildings under exceptional events. For more than 10 years, the University of Liege is strongly involved in researches investigating the response of structures further to such exceptional events ([1] and [2]). The present paper gives a global overview on recent or ongoing developments performed at the University of Liege in the field of robustness of steel building structures subjected to impact loading leading to the loss of a column. The conducted studies are founded on a combination of experimental, numerical and analytical approaches with the final aim to propose simplified procedures useful for practitioners and allowing ensuring an appropriate level of robustness to structures for the considered scenario

Disciplines :

Civil engineering

Author, co-author :

Demonceau, Jean-François ; Université de Liège > Département ArGEnCo > Département ArGEnCo

Comeliau, Ludivine

Hoang, Van Long ; Université de Liège > Département ArGEnCo > Adéquat. struct. aux exig. de fonct.& perfor. techn.-écon.

Jaspart, Jean-Pierre ; Université de Liège > Département ArGEnCo > Adéquat. struct. aux exig. de fonct.& perfor. techn.-écon.

Language :

English

Title :

How can a steel structure survive to impact loading? Numerical and analytical investigations

Publication date :

2017

Journal title :

Open Civil Engineering Journal

eISSN :

1874-1495

Publisher :

Bentham Science Publishers

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Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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