The Darlington Building Collapse: Modern Engineering and Obsolete Systems

Friedman, Donald

doi:10.1061/40853(217)27

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“…Such events usually have disastrous consequences, amongst which human causalities remain the most abysmal. In response to that, several studies on the issue of building collapses have been performed [10][11][12], and many methods to prevent the occurrence of this problem have been proposed [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. For instance, Li et al [13] proposed a method to identify collapsed buildings using remote sensing in earthquake-prone areas and provided general recommendations for preventing building collapses.…”

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“…Daniel et al [16] investigated a collapse accident of a frame structure under construction and put forward many suggestions for the safety of frame structure buildings. Friedman et al [17] gave advice to the design and construction of cage-frame structure buildings, taking the collapse of Darlington Apartments as example. However, the methods proposed in recent research are not suitable for masonry-concrete structure buildings, and recent building collapsing accidents in China show that the majority of collapsed buildings are masonry-concrete structure buildings.…”

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“…It is difficult to analyze the mechanics and check the stability of a brick-concrete structure due to its early construction age. Additionally, the above literature [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] rarely analyzes the management problems, so more attention should be paid to management problems. Given the continuous occurrence of building collapses, it is vital and urgent to contribute to the knowledge of the field via providing punctual insights from new collapse cases.…”

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A Brief Report of Hotel Collapse Causing Casualties in Suzhou, China

Chen

Njock

Zhao

2021

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The collapse of a 30-year-old hotel building in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province on 12 July 2021 raised legitimate questions about the identification of old buildings’ condition and risks stemming from remedial operations. This short communication reports and investigates the causes of this accident, which led to 17 deaths and 5 injuries. Subsequently, it describes the rescue actions undertaken, including logistic means, operational strategies, and procedure sequencing. The causes of the accident were attributed to: (i) the poor quality and fragility of the building, (ii) illegal renovations and extensions, as well as (iii) the laxism of relevant departments that failed to timely check the risk level of the building before these renovations. Thanks to efficient organization and management, the rescue operations were completed within 42 h. Based on this preliminary analysis, some recommendations are proposed to prevent similar incidents in the future.

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A Brief Report of Hotel Collapse Causing Casualties in Suzhou, China

Chen

Njock

Zhao

2021

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“…Similar floor systems made up of steel (laminated) I-beams and special burned clay hollow elements obtained from the first extruder machines and forming prefabricated vaults of short span, named "volterrane", were later used in Central and Southern Italy. The mechanical properties of the adopted wrought iron can be found in [1], while some characteristic features of typical structural components made up of this material are reported and discussed in [2,3]. A number of studies were carried out on the behaviour of masonry vaults with different shapes and geometries providing a satisfactory understanding of their performance [4,5].…”

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Structural Performance of Old Composite Floors Made up of Wrought Iron Joists and Masonry Vaults

Gattesco

Macorini

2015

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In this paper the behaviour of old floors made up of wrought iron beams supporting shallow masonry vaults is analysed. The performance of this structural system, which was extensively used in Europe in the XIX century, has been only marginally investigated thus far. Very few studies on masonry-iron composite floors are available in the literature, where the role played by the physical interaction between the vaults and the metallic profiles has yet to be fully understood. When assessing historical buildings with floors characterised by the analysed floor system, a realistic estimate of this interaction may be critical to avoid unnecessary and costly strengthening works. The floor structure with composite wrought iron beams and solid brick vaults of the “Military Hospital” in Trieste built in 1840 by the Hapsburg Military Administration have been investigated performing physical experiments and numerical simulations. Experimental tests were carried on the floor and used to calibrate finite element numerical descriptions. These have been adopted in numerical simulations to investigate the response of the analysed floor system up to collapse considering different geometrical characteristics for the floor. The numerical results shed some light on the actual interaction between the different components of the composite floor which significantly influences the floor stiffness and load bearing capacity.

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