- Author
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Dixon, R.
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Bowerman, H. G.
- Title
- Advantages of Steel-Concrete-Steel Sandwich Construction in Highrise Buildings.
- Coporate
- Corus Bi-Steel and Construction Services, Scunthorpe, UK
- 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,
639-646 p.,
2003
- Keywords
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World Trade Center
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high rise buildings
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structural behavior
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steels
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concretes
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construction
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loads (forces)
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blasts
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impact
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fire resistance
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costs
- Identifiers
- World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; performance of bi-steel in fire; inherent extreme load performance; simple modular construction; Steel-Concrete-Steel sandwich construction (SCS); buckling/axial performance; in-plane shear resistance; prefabrication; modular construction; comparative cost of SCS and reinforced concrete