Robustness and Resilience of Structures under Extreme Loads
Open Access
- 21 May 2019
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Advances in Civil Engineering
- Vol. 2019, 1-14
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/4291703
Abstract
Many of modern life activities involve the risk of fire, explosions, and impacts. In addition, natural extreme events are becoming more and more common. Thus, robustness, the ability to avoid disproportionate collapse due to an initial damage, and resilience, the ability to adapt to and recover from the effects of changing external conditions, represent two important characteristics of current structures and infrastructures. Their definitions are reviewed in this paper with the aim of sorting and describing the different approaches proposed in the literature and in the international standards. A simple example is also analysed in order to compare different methods.Keywords
Funding Information
- Autonomous Region of Sardinia (PO-FSE 2014–2020, CCI: 2014-IT05SFOP021)
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