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    Progressive collapse is the process where a primary structural element fails, resulting in the failure of adjoining structural elements, which in turn...
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    resulting in a total progressive collapse that killed almost 3,000 people. It is the deadliest and costliest building collapse in history. The North...
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    designed system, a localized failure should not cause immediate or even progressive collapse of the entire structure. Structural integrity is the ability of a...
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  • Thumbnail for World Trade Center controlled demolition conspiracy theories
    considered fundamental errors in a 2007 paper on the mechanics of progressive collapse by Bažant and Verdure. In the same issue, Bažant and Le rebutted...
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    motion of the crowd. Under these conditions, the crowd may undergo a progressive collapse where the pressure pushes people off their feet, resulting in people...
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    Champlain Towers South suddenly suffered a partial collapse at about 1:14 a.m, followed by the progressive collapse of the central section and eastern wing of...
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    initiated the progressive collapse of the entire building at 5:21:10 pm, according to FEMA,: 23  while the 2008 NIST study placed the final collapse time at...
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    (Korean: 삼풍백화점; Hanja: 三豐百貨店) in Seoul, South Korea, collapsed due to a structural failure. The collapse killed 502 people and injured 937, making it the...
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    degenerative disease of the adult navicular bone characterized by progressive collapse and fragmentation, leading to mid- and hindfoot pain and deformity...
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    Ronan Point (category Collapsed buildings and structures in the United Kingdom)
    their collapse. Falling floor slabs from Hodge's floor and the floors above pancaked down onto the floors below, causing a progressive collapse of all...
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  • result of progressive collapse initiated by the jet impacts and the resultant fires. A 2008 NIST report described a similar progressive collapse as the cause...
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  • constructed to be robust should not suffer from disproportionate collapse (progressive collapse) under accidental loading. Buildings of some kinds, especially...
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    Societal collapse (also known as civilizational collapse or systems collapse) is the fall of a complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural...
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    October 24, 2006. Bažant, Z.K.P.; Verdure, M. (2007). "Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World Trade Center and Building Demolitions" (PDF)...
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    The Late Bronze Age collapse was a time of widespread societal collapse during the 12th century BC associated with environmental change, mass migration...
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    within a certain distance of the building; and measures to prevent progressive collapse of buildings. In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, the...
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    failures. Its roof had partially collapsed during construction, and the ill-conceived skywalk design progressively degraded due to a miscommunication...
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    Oklahoma City bombing (category Building and structure collapses in 1995)
    shards and fatalities, and structural engineering design to prevent progressive collapse. The attack led to engineering improvements allowing buildings to...
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    Versailles wedding hall disaster (category Building and structure collapses in 2001)
    guests fell with the progressive collapse, through the two lower stories of the wedding hall. 23 people died due to the collapse and 356 people were injured...
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    the first to collapse, which caused the progressive collapse of spans three and four. Ninety minutes later pier two and span two collapsed. Two hours later...
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    understand the collapse of the towers. Specifically, they wanted to know if the collapse of a core column could cause the progressive collapse of the whole...
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    24 June 2017. Bažant, Z. K. P.; Verdure, M. (2007). "Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World Trade Center and Building Demolitions" (PDF)...
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    little explosive as possible so that the structure will fail in a progressive collapse, and therefore only a few floors are rigged with explosives, so that...
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    followed radically changed the mahogany trade, primarily due to the progressive collapse of the French and Spanish colonial empires, which allowed British...
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    structural column then initiated a fire-induced progressive collapse of the entire building.... The collapse of WTC 7 is the first known instance of a tall...
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    The Progressive Democrats (Irish: An Páirtí Daonlathach, literally "The Democratic Party"), commonly referred to as the PDs, was a conservative liberal...
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  • between internal and external pressure to collapse a structure. Instead, the goal is to induce a progressive collapse by weakening or removing critical supports;...
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    theory Interdependent networks Kessler Syndrome Percolation theory Progressive collapse Virtuous circle and vicious circle Wicked problem "Cascading Failure...
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  • Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (category Collapsed buildings and structures in the United States)
    facilities including blast resistant glazing. Structural design resists progressive collapse. Building mass, glazing inside the courtyard, and bollards help to...
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    The Progressive Era (1901–1929) was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across...
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