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Author
Ngo, T. | Mendis, P. | Kusuma, G.
Title
Vulnerability Assessment of Concrete Tall Buildings Subjected to Extreme Loading Conditions.
Coporate
University of Melborune, Australia
Book or Conf
Strategies for Performance in the Aftermath of the World Trade Center. CIB-CTBUH Conference on Tall Buildings. Proceedings. Task Group on Tall Buildings: CIB TG50. CIB Publication No. 290. October 20-23, 2003, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Shafii, F.; Bukowski, R.; Klemencic, R., Editors, 591-598 p., 2003
Keywords
World Trade Center | high rise buildings | structural loading | concretes | survivability | blasts | impact | building collapse | load capacity | damage
Identifiers
World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; progressive collapse; extreme loadings; determing hazard levels: extreme load cases; aircraft impact loading; examples of aircrafts and peak impact loads; peak reflected overpressures (MPa) with different W -R combinations; global and local damage assessment; non-linear time-history analysis (global assessment)