- Author
- Somes, N. F.
- Title
- Progressive Collapse Risk. Discussion No. 10.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- American Society of Civil Engineers and International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. International Conference on Planning and Design of Tall Buildings. Volume 1B. Tall Building Criteria and Loading. Fire and Blast--Technical Committee No. 8. August 21-26, 1972, Bethlehem, PA, Kavanagh, T. C., Khan, F., Gaylord, E. H. and Rosenblueth, E., Editors, 727 p., 1972
- Keywords
- high rise buildings | load capacity
- Abstract
- The National Bureau of Standards is undertaking an extensive study on behalf of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The objectives are to determine the nature and frequency of occurrence of the various forms of extreme local loads on high rise buildings and to develop criteria necessary to reduce the risk of progressive collapse to an acceptable level.