Collapse Scenarios of High-Rise Buildings Using Plastic Limit Analysis
The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, USA collapsed on 11 September, 2001. The incident is regarded as the most severe disaster for high-rise buildings in history. Investigations into the collapse scenarios are still being conducted. Possible collapse scenarios assessed by loc...
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| description | The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, USA collapsed on 11 September, 2001. The incident is regarded as the most severe disaster for high-rise buildings in history. Investigations into the collapse scenarios are still being conducted. Possible collapse scenarios assessed by local and international experts were reported. Another possible collapse scenario of the WTC based on two hypotheses was proposed in this paper, and the idea of plastic limit analysis was applied to evaluate the approximate limit load. According to the theory analysis and numerical calculations, a conclusion can be drawn that the large fires, aroused by the terrorist attack, play a significant role on the collapse of the WTC. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-11202a50d7eb4745be84d5cc5938f30b2025-02-03T05:46:40ZengWileyAdvances in Civil Engineering1687-80861687-80942009-01-01200910.1155/2009/429169429169Collapse Scenarios of High-Rise Buildings Using Plastic Limit AnalysisG. Liu0D. K. Liu1W. K. Chow2Singapore-MIT Alliance, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117576, SingaporeCivil Engineering College, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, ChinaDepartment of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, ChinaThe Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York, USA collapsed on 11 September, 2001. The incident is regarded as the most severe disaster for high-rise buildings in history. Investigations into the collapse scenarios are still being conducted. Possible collapse scenarios assessed by local and international experts were reported. Another possible collapse scenario of the WTC based on two hypotheses was proposed in this paper, and the idea of plastic limit analysis was applied to evaluate the approximate limit load. According to the theory analysis and numerical calculations, a conclusion can be drawn that the large fires, aroused by the terrorist attack, play a significant role on the collapse of the WTC.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/429169 |
| spellingShingle | G. Liu D. K. Liu W. K. Chow Collapse Scenarios of High-Rise Buildings Using Plastic Limit Analysis Advances in Civil Engineering |
| title | Collapse Scenarios of High-Rise Buildings Using Plastic Limit Analysis |
| title_full | Collapse Scenarios of High-Rise Buildings Using Plastic Limit Analysis |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Collapse Scenarios of High-Rise Buildings Using Plastic Limit Analysis |
| title_short | Collapse Scenarios of High-Rise Buildings Using Plastic Limit Analysis |
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