Dynamic additional loading of the frame of a multi-story building after the failure of one of the structures

Abstract

A calculated model of a building frame fragment is presented for calculating the dynamic additional loading of structural elements in the zone of possible local destruction after the failure of one of the structures. To model such a fragment, a substructure isolated from a structural system of the building frame was used in the form of a two-span statically indeterminate continuous beam under various boundary conditions on the extreme supports, loaded with a specified design load. The sudden removal of the middle supporting column of the substructure is modelled by reducing to zero for some short-time the internal force in this column, obtained when calculating the entire frame of the building. The use of level calculated schemes and analytical description of the movement of reinforced concrete substructure with variable stiffness due to cracking for determining the dynamic additional loading of frame elements of a multi-story building after the failure of one of the structures allows to define the parameters of the dynamic response of the substructure and simulate in more detail the zones of possible local destruction of the building under the considered special action. The developed algorithm for calculating physically and structurally nonlinear reinforced concrete systems can be used for the calculated analysis of the frame of multi-story buildings when designing their protection against progressive collapse.