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In Chapters 4-6, a pragmatic approach was presented that allows a reasonable balance of safety and economy to be reached in the design of structures susceptible to disproportionate collapse. This approach still lacks an objective mathematical basis. Its use requires engineering judgment, imagination and experience. The further development of this approach should, where possible, go beyond this subjective basis towards more objective procedures in order to advance its applicability and general acceptance. The terms 'robustness' and 'collapse resistance' as defined in Section 4.2 offer the possibility for this development. According to these definitions, robustness means insensitivity of a structure to initial damage (which usually means initial local failure), and collapse resistance is insensitivity to abnormal events. The defining terms 'insensitivity', 'initial damage' and 'abnormal events' used here are quantifiable by referring to the design objectives set out in Section 4.3.2. In the following, the formulation of measures for quantitatively describing robustness and collapse resistance is discussed. ## Areas of application A quantification of these properties based on the defi

Author

Uwe Starossek

Publisher

ICE Publishing

Published

2017

Language

EN