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Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering pp 2729–2752Cite as

Seismic Collapse Assessment

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Collapse criterion; Collapse variability; Component deterioration; Nonlinear dynamic analysis; P-delta effect; Structural modeling strategies

Introduction

In earthquake engineering, structural collapse is defined as the local or global failure of a system that occurs due to the loss of vertical load-carrying capacity in the presence of seismic events. The two primary modes of global collapse are sidesway and vertical collapse. Sidesway collapse is the global failure of the system caused by a reduction of the lateral load-bearing capacity due to large horizontal displacements, whereas vertical collapse is caused by a direct loss of the gravity load-bearing capacity in one or several structural components (Krawinkler et al. 2009). Vertical collapse is a type of progressive collapse, which is the total or disproportionate failure of the system triggered by an initial local failure that spreads out from element to element.

Commonly, in ductile frame structures, sidesway collapse...

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  1. Department of Engineering Science, Unit of Applied Mechanics, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 13, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Christoph Adam

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

    Luis F. Ibarra

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    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Adam, C., Ibarra, L.F. (2015). Seismic Collapse Assessment. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_248

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