Mitigation of the risk of progressive collapse in steel and composite building frames under exceptional events (FAILNOMORE)

Structural robustness and mitigation of progressive collapse is a specific safety consideration, which requires particular care from all professionals involved in the construction industry, including architects, designers, constructors, control officers, and insurance managers.

During the past decade, RFCS has funded a significant number of research projects related to the structural response of steel and composite buildings in view of robustness. In the frame of these projects, technical aspects related to global (structure) and local (members, compartments, …) behaviour have been widely investigated for various exceptional loading situations (impact, fire, earthquake, ….). Besides that, EU has financially supported a COST action (TU0601) entitled “robustness of structures” which was devoted to the risk assessment and scenario definition aspects.

As an outcome of the FAILNOMORE project, based on the results of already completed research projects, the end-user will be provided with practical and user-friendly design guidelines in view of improved robustness. Example calculations will show the application of these design rules. These will enable a safe yet economic design of steel and composite structures exposed to the threat of possible catastrophic events.

University of Liège, Urban and Environmental Engineering – Steel and Composite Constructions, Univ. Prof. Dr. Ir. Jean-Pierre Jaspart and Univ. Prof. Dr. Ir. Jean- François Demonceau. University of Coimbra; Imperial College of Science and Technology and medicine; University of Stuttgart, Institut für Konstruktion und Entwurf, Univ. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrike Kuhlmann; Università degli Studi di Trento; Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara; České vysoké učení technické v Praze; Rzeszów University of Technology; Technische Universiteit Delft; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de rennes; ECCS; Feldmann + Weynand GmbH; ArcelorMittal Belval & Differdanga S.A.

Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS)

01. Juli 2020