Flat slab concrete buildings are widely found in infrastructure such as office and residential buildings or industrial facilities. The susceptibility of progressive collapse of such structures due to accidental loads is highly dependent on the structural performance of the slab-column connections. This paper presents a framework for a simplified reliability analysis and derivation of safety factors for computing the probability of punching of flat slab concrete buildings subjected to accidental loads such as column removal, slab falling from above or blast load. The main advantage of the proposed approach is that it considers in a simple manner, the uncertainty in the gravity load applied in the slab before the accidental event, which affects the inertial effects and demand/capacity ratio in the slab-column connections. Eurocode 2 and the Critical Shear Crack Theory for punching are used and extended to dynamic cases for the assessment of the demand/capacity ratio using computer-based time history finite element simulations. The proposed reliability method is applied to a case study of an existing building showing that the column removal situation is not always critical whereas the slab falling from above is much more detrimental

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One of the evocative structural design solutions for tall buildings is recently embraced by the diagrid (diagonal grid) IntroductionIt is a common understanding that society requires enhanced structures for the people's needs. Besides safety and functional requirements collectively defined in the so-called Performancebased Design [1], today the attention focuses on the sustainability in the broader and profound sense of the word [2].Sustainability in the urban and built environment is a key issue for the wellbeing of people and society. Sustainable development, defined as the "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs" [3] is nowadays a first concern for public authorities and the private sector. Sustainable design leads to innovation since it demands inventive solutions, and eventually is supported by a cultural shift, evident from national level reviews and surveys [4,5]. Sustainability issues are wide-ranging in the building industry but the main focus is the reduction of energy consumption in construction and use.In construction, steel has developed as a material of choice and offers a wide range of solutions that can make buildings more energy efficient, less costly to operate and more comfortable. Several green solutions, aiming at the minimization of structural steel, have been developed in the last few years. Among those, the diagrid structural system is considered as a promising solution for high-rise steel buildings. Diagrid is a perimeter structural configuration characterized by a narrow grid of diagonal members that are involved both in gravity and in lateral load resistance that has emerged as a new design trend recently for tall-shaped complex structures due to aesthetics and structural performance [6,7].Since diagrid requires less structural steel than a conventional steel frame, it provides for a more sustainable structure.This study focuses on the overall structural performance, the ultimate capacity and the robustness of diagrid tall buildings, using numerical (FE) methods. More precisely, the paper is organized in the following manner. Section 2 provides details on diagrid for high-rise buildings. Section 3 outlines structural robustness approaches for steel buildings. Section 4 introduces the case study steel high-rise building and the performed Finite Element (FE) numerical analyses. Finally, Section 5 provides some

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