Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Civil Engineering

Precast concrete structures become widely used recently due to high quality of manufacturing as well as its good behaviour under gravity. However, the most critical part in the precast structures is beam to column connections in precast frame system due to the different variables involved in the assemblages. In this thesis, a study is carried out on different wet beam column connections under column removal scenario to obeserve the behavior of the connections due to progressive collapse. Different column removal locations with different frame arrangements is studied. The applied element method is implemented in the study to construct a 3D detailed model of the studied connections by using extreme loading of structures software. The performance of the connections is presented in terms beam, column and joint behavior

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