Post punching shear pattern and progressive collapse of flat slab building

Abstract

The possibility of the occurrence of a second punching shear failure and of a Progressive Collapse after a punching shear failure had occurred in one flat slab column connection is investigated in two building structures, using Eberick and SAP2000 softwares and the Yield Line Method, and codes ACI318:2019, EUROCODE2:2004 and NBR6118:2014. It is shown that slab column connections should be designed and detailed to prevent Progressive Collapse and that Integrity Reinforcement should always be present, and that the remaining capacity of floors after punching failures depends on the i) post-punching resistance of the connection being punched; ii) post-punching resistance of the neighbors’ connections; iii) flexural resistance of the slabs, and that the flexural resistance of the slab’s floors can be evaluated by the Yield Line Method.