RESEARCH ARTICLE
How Can a Steel Structure Survive to Impact Loading?
Demonceau Jean-François1, *, Comeliau Ludivine2, Hoang Van Long1, Jaspart Jean-Pierre1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2017Volume: 11
Issue: Suppl-1, M10
First Page: 434
Last Page: 452
Publisher ID: TOCIEJ-11-434
DOI: 10.2174/1874149501711010434
Article History:
Received Date: 17/11/2015Revision Received Date: 02/05/2016
Acceptance Date: 23/06/2016
Electronic publication date: 30/06/2017
Collection year: 2017
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Abstract
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 further investigating the response of structures to such exceptional events [1, 2]. The present paper gives a global overview on recent or on-going 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.