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Stability of the World Trade Center Twin Towers Structural Frame in Multiple Floor Fires
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This technical note presents the results from a nonlinear finite element analysis of a very simple two dimensional model of the World Trade Center Twin-Towers structural frame subjected to fire. The analysis was carried ...
Case Study of the Failure of a Cross Vault: Church of Holyrood Abbey
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: The church of Holyrood Abbey, in Edinburgh, collapsed in 1768 after an inappropriate intervention in the nave vaults. This resulted in excessive lateral thrusts, which could not be contained by the existing buttressing ...