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  • A preliminary analysis and discussion of the condominium building collapse in surfside, Florida, US, June 24, 2021

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    Author(s)
    Lu, Xinzheng
    Guan, Hong
    Sun, Hailin
    Li, Yi
    Zheng, Zhe
    Fei, Yifan
    Yang, Zhi
    Zuo, Lingxiao
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Guan, Hong
    Yang, Zhi
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    On June 24, 2021, a 40-year-old reinforced concrete flat plate structure building in Miami suffered a sudden partial collapse. This study analyzed the overall performance and key components of the collapsed building based on the building design codes (ACI-318 and GB 50010). Punching shear and post-punching performances of typical slab-column joints are also studied through the refined finite element analysis. The collapse process was simulated and visualized using a physics engine. By way of these analyses, weak design points of the collapsed building are highlighted. The differences between the reinforcement detailing of ...
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    On June 24, 2021, a 40-year-old reinforced concrete flat plate structure building in Miami suffered a sudden partial collapse. This study analyzed the overall performance and key components of the collapsed building based on the building design codes (ACI-318 and GB 50010). Punching shear and post-punching performances of typical slab-column joints are also studied through the refined finite element analysis. The collapse process was simulated and visualized using a physics engine. By way of these analyses, weak design points of the collapsed building are highlighted. The differences between the reinforcement detailing of the collapsed building and the requirements of the current Chinese code are discussed, together with a comparison of the punching shear and post-punching performances. The simulated collapse procedure and debris distribution are compared with the actual collapse scenes.
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    Journal Title
    Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-021-0766-0
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2021. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.
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    This publication has been entered in Griffith Research Online as an advanced online version.
    Subject
    Civil engineering
    Architecture
    Science & Technology
    Engineering
    progressive collapse
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/408795
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