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JournalISSN: 0887-3828

Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 

American Society of Civil Engineers
About: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities is an academic journal published by American Society of Civil Engineers. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Masonry & Bridge (interpersonal). It has an ISSN identifier of 0887-3828. Over the lifetime, 2352 publications have been published receiving 35840 citations. The journal is also known as: Performance of constructed facilities.


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied over 500 bridge failures in the United States between 1989 and 2000 and found that the most frequent causes of bridge failures were attributed to floods and collisions, with most failures occurring during the bridge's service life.
Abstract: Over 500 failures of bridge structures in the United States between 1989 and 2000 were studied. The age of the failed bridges ranged from 1 year (during construction) to 157 years, with an average of 52.5 years. The most frequent causes of bridge failures were attributed to floods and collisions. Flood and scour, with the major flood disaster in 1993, contributed to the frequency peak of bridge failures (almost 53% of all failures). Bridge overload and lateral impact forces from trucks, barges/ships, and trains constitute 20% of the total bridge failures. Other frequent principal causes are design, detailing, construction, material, and maintenance. Comparison made among three periods of similar studies (1977–1981, 1982–1988, and 1989–2000) revealed almost similar trends, with most failures occurring during the bridge’s service life. Also, human-induced external events occurred frequently in all three periods, but were most dominant in the first and third periods. Technological advances in information sys...

714 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a framework for addressing issues related to low probability/high consequence events in building practice, summarizes strategies for progressive collapse risk mitigation, and identifies challenges for implementing general provisions in national standards such as ASCE Standard 7, Minimum design loads for buildings and other structures.
Abstract: A progressive collapse initiates as a result of local structural damage and develops, in a chain reaction mechanism, into a failure that is disproportionate to the initiating local damage Such collapses can be initiated by many causes Changes in building practices to address low probability/high consequence events and to lessen building vulnerability to progressive collapse currently are receiving considerable attention in the professional engineering community and in standard-writing groups in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe Procedures for identifying and screening specific threat scenarios, for assessing the capability of a building to withstand local damage without a general structural collapse developing, and for assessing and mitigating the risk of progressive collapse can be developed using concepts of probabilistic risk assessment This paper provides a framework for addressing issues related to low probability/high consequence events in building practice, summarizes strategies for progressive collapse risk mitigation, and identifies challenges for implementing general provisions in national standards such as ASCE Standard 7, Minimum design loads for buildings and other structures

314 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare four methods for progressive collapse analysis by analyzing a nine-story steel moment-resistant frame building, employing increasingly complex analytical procedures: linear-elastic static, nonlinear static, linear-linear dynamic, and nonlinear dynamic methodologies.
Abstract: We compare four methods for progressive collapse analysis by analyzing a nine-story steel moment-resistant frame building, employing increasingly complex analytical procedures: linear-elastic static, nonlinear static, linear-elastic dynamic, and nonlinear dynamic methodologies. Each procedure is thoroughly investigated and common shortcomings are identified, along with advantages and disadvantages, using side-by-side comparison, including approximate time spent on modeling and computation. The evaluation uses current General Services Administration progressive collapse guidelines. Our objective is to provide clear conceptual step-by-step descriptions of various procedures for progressive collapse analysis by performing example analyses using commercially available structural analysis software, such as SAP2000, with the aim that the explanations in this paper will be clear enough that they will be readily understandable and will be used by practicing engineers. We demonstrate that dynamic analysis procedures not only yield more accurate results, but are also easy to perform for progressive collapse determination. Additionally, we show that current GSA performance limits for linear analysis procedures are unconservative, meaning that a structure designed with acceptable linear evaluation criteria may exceed allowable ductility and rotation limits when nonlinear dynamic analysis is performed on the same structure. Finally, our recommendations for the analysis procedures take into account accuracy as well as ease of use.

237 citations

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TL;DR: In the early morning hours of May 16, 1968, the occupant of apartment 90 on the 18th floor of the 22-story Ronan Point apartment tower, in London, lit a match to brew her morning cup of tea as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In the early morning hours of May 16, 1968, the occupant of apartment 90 on the 18th floor of the 22-story Ronan Point apartment tower, in London, lit a match to brew her morning cup of tea. The resulting gas explosion initiated a partial collapse of the structure that killed four people and injured 17 (one of whom subsequently died). On investigation, the apartment tower was found to be deeply flawed in both design and construction. The existing building codes were found to be inadequate for ensuring the safety and integrity of high-rise precast concrete apartment buildings. The Larsen–Nielson building system, intended for buildings with only six stories, had been extended past the point of safety. The tower consisted of precast panels joined together without a structural frame. The connections relied, in large part, on friction. The apartment tower lacked alternate load paths to redistribute forces in the event of a partial collapse. When the structure was dismantled, investigators found appallingly poo...

226 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present four more sophisticated analysis procedures for evaluating the progressive collapse hazard of existing buildings: linear-elastic static, nonlinear static, linear linear dynamic, and nonlinear dynamic.
Abstract: Following the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in September 2001, there has been heightened interest among building owners and government entities in evaluating the progressive collapse potential of existing buildings and in designing new buildings to resist this type of collapse. The General Services Administration and Department of Defense have issued general guidelines for evaluating a building’s progressive collapse potential. However, little detailed information is available to enable engineers to confidently perform a systematic progressive collapse analysis satisfying these guidelines. In this paper, we present four successively more sophisticated analysis procedures for evaluating the progressive collapse hazard: linear-elastic static; nonlinear static; linear-elastic dynamic; and nonlinear dynamic. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each method. We conclude that the most effective analysis procedure for progressive collapse evaluation incorporates the advantageous parts of al...

208 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202376
2022117
2021123
2020174
2019110
2018119