Towards the influence of the local collapse of structural elements to generate progressive collapse

Abstract

After the total or partial collapse of several important buildings, the specialists in civil engineering began to treat more seriously and accurately the problem of completely avoiding progressive or general collapse or just in the first instance in order to ensure complete evacuation of people and/or important goods. Considering these aspects, in this paper I’ll present two parallel study cases for buildings with 5 and 10 levels, which are supposed to have a local collapse of one first-floor column (corner, marginal or central) realizing simple or complex analysis in order to identify problems that ascend on the whole building.