Dr Uwe Starossek, Hamburg University of Technology
ICE Lecture 2009
Progressive collapse is arguable the most dramatic and feared form of failure in structural engineering. It usually occurs unexpectedly and causes disproportionate losses. Modern design methods and verification procedures are based on reliability theory and have a mathematically sound foundation. However they appear insufficient to prevent progressive and disproportionate collapse.
Dr Uwe Starossek, Professor of Structural Engineering at Hamburg University of Technology, discusses a pragmatic approach to ensure safety against disproportionate collapse. It's called pragmatic as it lacks the rigour of a purely mathematical basis. It enables the engineer to adequately address the problem in the sense that safety and economy are reasonably balanced and the required structural analysis remains tractable. Dr Starrossek discusses a framework for pragmatic design approach and design strategies and methods.
This lecture is based on Dr Starossek's paper in Structures and Buildings 160, published December 2007.
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