Reliability study and simulation of the progressive collapse of Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport

摘要

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport also known as Roissy Airport is the world’s eighth-busiest Received 17 December 2014 airport in passengers served. In May 2004, the news of collapse of a portion of Terminal 2E Received in reise tom 13 March 2015 leaving four casualties shook the world. Luckily, no boarding had been taking place in the Accepted 13 March 2015 collapsed area which consisted of a boarding area and three footbridges. This part of the Available online 24 March 2015 * . . . wee terminal had an innovative design consisting of a vaulted concrete tube. We chose to model a representative part of the terminal to observe the structure's behavior.