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How to design safely collapsing buildings?
Designing buildings to intentionally collapse isn't a standard practice due to safety concerns. Controlled demolitions, done by experts with precision and planning, ensure safety and controlled debris....
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How to design safely collapsing buildings?
Normal, expensive, earthquake-safe buildings do collapse: they collapse in an earthquake-safe manner, absorbing energy as they collapse, and leaving survivable spaces. Steel is a good material for ...
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How to design safely collapsing buildings?
Designing a building to collapse in a fashion suitable so it falls upon it's footprint, usually how demolition experts plan when explosives are used to dispose of it. It makes little sense to design a ...
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Beam deflection for FEA model validation
First step is just a cantilever a long by 2c deep. Hopefully that is somewhat stiffer than your FEA and you can easily check that by fixing the cantilever at the left hand end in the FEA.
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