Abstract: For the past several years, a committee of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (SEI/ASCE) has been drafting a new standard addressing analyses and design for the mitigation of ...

Abstract: For several decades, the engineering profession has considered techniques to analyze the potential that structures could experience disproportionate collapse and to design them for greater resistance to such collapse. First ...

Abstract: In November of 1990, approximately 850 m (2,800 ft) of the 2020 m (6,620 ft) long Lacey V. Murrow Bridge (LVMB), a 50-year-old floating concrete bridge over Lake Washington near Seattle, sank after a major storm. The bridge ...

Abstract: An overview of fire damage sustained by the Pentagon structural elements in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack is provided. The fire intensity in some compartments of the affected areas inside the Pentagon was ...

Abstract: The devastation in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon was reduced by the building’s resilient structural system. The continuity, redundancy, and energy-absorbing capacity embodied in this system should ...

Abstract: On September 11, 2001, the reinforced concrete structure of the Pentagon Building was able to resist, without collapse, the impact of a large commercial airliner despite the total loss of 26 columns and severe damage to ...

Abstract: On September 11, 2001, an airliner was intentionally crashed into the Pentagon. It struck at the first elevated slab on the west wall, and slid approximately

Abstract: The Pentagon was constructed between September 1941 and January 1943. A substantial renovation of the entire