Abstract: Progressive collapse of building structures has been a hot research topic since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. These works provide valuable information focused more on beam–column connections and two-dimensional ...

Abstract: Since the middle of the last century, numerous fracture models have been reported in the literature. These models, whether proposed on the basis of theoretical derivation, experimental observation, or a combination of the ...

Abstract: The propensity of buildings for progressive collapse can be assessed using the alternative path method. Generally, there are three scenarios to be considered: internal column, side column, and corner column removals. Many ...