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    1) In 1988, the roof of a supermarket under construction in Burnaby, Canada collapsed, killing a worker. The collapse was caused by a failure of the supporting steel beams. 2) An investigation found the beams were undersized and lacked adequate buckling resistance for the construction loads. The beams collapsed while concrete was being poured on the second floor. 3) Rebuilding involved using thicker beams and shoring the slab during construction to prevent further failures of supporting members from excessive loads. Proper design and codes are important to ensure structural elements like beams have sufficient strength for their intended loads.

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    1) In 1988, the roof of a supermarket under construction in Burnaby, Canada collapsed, killing a worker. The collapse was caused by a failure of the supporting steel beams. 2) An investigation found the beams were undersized and lacked adequate buckling resistance for the construction loads. The beams collapsed while concrete was being poured on the second floor. 3) Rebuilding involved using thicker beams and shoring the slab during construction to prevent further failures of supporting members from excessive loads. Proper design and codes are important to ensure structural elements like beams have sufficient strength for their intended loads.

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    1) In 1988, the roof of a supermarket under construction in Burnaby, Canada collapsed, killing a worker. The collapse was caused by a failure of the supporting steel beams. 2) An investigation found the beams were undersized and lacked adequate buckling resistance for the construction loads. The beams collapsed while concrete was being poured on the second floor. 3) Rebuilding involved using thicker beams and shoring the slab during construction to prevent further failures of supporting members from excessive loads. Proper design and codes are important to ensure structural elements like beams have sufficient strength for their intended loads.

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    1) In 1988, the roof of a supermarket under construction in Burnaby, Canada collapsed, killing a worker. The collapse was caused by a failure of the supporting steel beams. 2) An investigation found the beams were undersized and lacked adequate buckling resistance for the construction loads. The beams collapsed while concrete was being poured on the second floor. 3) Rebuilding involved using thicker beams and shoring the slab during construction to prevent further failures of supporting members from excessive loads. Proper design and codes are important to ensure structural elements like beams have sufficient strength for their intended loads.

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    Failure of Civil Structures

    -a case study of beam failure

    By,
    Michael Joseph (120040097)
    Hardik Gupta (120040117)
    Division-2 ( 3rd year Civil Engineering)
    The Problem Burnaby Supermarket Construction Failure

    Tackling the situation Impacts of Improvement

    A beam is
    a structural element which is primarily
    capable of withstanding load by
    resisting bending. The beam/girder
    gives horizontal support to the
    structure. But there are situations
    where the assumptions, of its load
    bearing capacity, go wrong which Figure: A bridge girder failure
    results in the failure of the structure.
    A beam failure rattles the support of the slab it
    holds which may result in the collapse of the whole roof to the floor
    since the vertical loads will no longer be transferred through the
    beams to the columns.

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    The Problem Burnaby Supermarket Construction Failure

    Tackling the situation Impacts of Improvement

    Figure: Failure
    possibilities in a
    beam

    Figure: Shear failure near the ends


    As can be seen from the figure,
    the beam has many critical points for its
    failure which can happen due to excessive
    compression, tension or shear force.
    Figure: Beam
    cross-section

    Figure: Tension/Compression failure

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    The Problem Burnaby Supermarket Construction Failure

    Tackling the situation Impacts of Improvement


    On April 23, 1988 the
    rooftop parking deck of a supermarket
    collapsed at Station Square in
    Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.
    Five minutes after the opening
    ceremony, four bays of the roof
    structure came plummeting to the
    ground.
    The collapse was Figure: Parking roof collapse due to beam failure
    attributed to a failure in the beam and
    beam-column assembly. At such a
    location, the beam experiences
    negative bending. There were a
    number of technical and procedural
    errors or that led to the collapse of the
    roof structure. The Commissioner's Figure: Bending moment diagram for the beam
    report states that the principle causes
    of failure were an undersized steel
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    beam and inadequate buckling
    resistance of the beam compression
    The Problem Burnaby Supermarket Construction Failure

    Tackling the situation Impacts of Improvement


    In this case, the
    supporting cold-formed steel beams
    collapsed during the construction. The
    collapse occurred while concrete was
    being placed onto steel decking on the
    second floor of the structure. The steel
    beams, without shoring, supported the Figure: Beam failure
    steel decking. Documents of American
    Iron and Steel Institute indicated that
    the beams were overstressed for
    construction loads. After the collapse,
    part of the structure was rebuilt using
    thicker beams. For the reconstruction,
    the slab was shored. Such engineering
    Figure: Bending moment diagram for the beam
    designs should take care to obtain the
    proper codes and design documents.
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    The Problem Burnaby Supermarket Construction Failure

    Tackling the situation Impacts of Improvement


    The current code of practice for beam construction has
    been specified in BS 5950 called "Structural Use of Steelwork in Building". This
    code gives specific guidance on the strength and stiffness of steel structures
    for buildings to allow numerical calculations to be made. Beam capacity is
    checked by comparing the ultimate strength with factored loadings. It checks
    the strength of a structure by ensuring ultimate strength is not less than
    working load x load factor.
    Cross sections, employed for beams, are usually open
    sections in which material is distributed in the flanges, i.e. away from their
    centroids, to improve their resistance to in-plane bending stresses. Open
    sections are also convenient to connect beams to adjacent members. In the
    ideal case, where the beams are restrained laterally, their bending strength
    about the major axis forms the principal design consideration. Though they
    possess high major axis bending strength, they are relatively weak in their
    minor axis bending and twisting.
    Surfaced plates have been developed for use in steel-
    concrete-steel double-skin beam elements, which help in providing higher
    resistance to a structure. Apart from these design considerations one can
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    always have a thicker beam with higher area in order to increase its strength.
    The Problem Burnaby Supermarket Construction Failure

    Tackling the situation Impacts of Improvement

    “Beam is one of
    the most important part of
    any civil structure. An
    increase in the strength of
    the beam, only helps the
    structure in sustaining a
    higher amount of load,
    thus providing with a
    higher safety index for the
    design.”

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