{"id":2389,"date":"2018-02-26T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T13:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ishik.edu.iq\/conf\/iec\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2018-02-23T18:19:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T15:19:29","slug":"iec2018-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conferences.tiu.edu.iq\/iec\/iec2018-30\/","title":{"rendered":"CASE STUDY: INVESTIGATING THE 2013 ASIACELL WAREHOUSE STEEL PORTAL FRAME FAILURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>4th International Engineering Conference on Developments in Civil &amp; Computer Engineering Applications (IEC2018)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><strong>Title<\/strong>:\u00a0CASE STUDY: INVESTIGATING THE 2013 ASIACELL WAREHOUSE STEEL PORTAL FRAME FAILURE<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors<\/strong>: Razaq Ferhadi<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOI<\/strong>:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>10.23918\/iec2018.30<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:\u00a0<\/strong>In a windy morning of March 17, 2013, a warehouse belonged to Asiacell Telecom collapsed during construction. The structure was a relatively large 108m by 48m double-span steel portal frame designed by an Iranian engineering firm and constructed by a local construction company. This catastrophic structure collapse that killed three workers and injured few, was a sudden failure that triggered an intense investigation to determine the cause to avoid the occurrence of the same mistake in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p>This research paper is the product and outcome of the forensic structural analysis performed by the author for Asiacell that indicates the exact reasons behind the catastrophic failure. It provides the evidence to be a lesson-learned document for the future steel structure construction in Iraqi Kurdistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>: Case Study, Steel Portal Frame, Structural Failure.<\/p>\n<p>[button href=&#8221;https:\/\/conferences.tiu.edu.iq\/iec\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/iec2018.30.pdf&#8221; size=&#8221;medium&#8221; textcolor=&#8221;#ffffff&#8221;]Full Paper (PDF)[\/button]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4th International Engineering Conference on Developments in Civil &amp; Computer Engineering Applications (IEC2018) Title:\u00a0CASE STUDY: INVESTIGATING THE 2013 ASIACELL WAREHOUSE STEEL PORTAL FRAME FAILURE Authors: Razaq Ferhadi DOI:\u00a010.23918\/iec2018.30 Abstract:\u00a0In a windy morning of March 17, 2013, a warehouse belonged to Asiacell Telecom collapsed during construction. 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