Issue 63

H. A. R. Cruz et alii, Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale, 63 (2023) 271-288; DOI: 10.3221/IGF-ESIS.63.21

members. It presents details of the connection system described above and illustrates the failures of some diagonal truss elements due to the characteristics aforementioned, with record of the first space truss collapse in Brazil in 1994.

(a) (b) Figure 1: Connection configuration of the end-flattened steel bars (a) and the collapse of a three-dimensional truss (b) [1].

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(c) Figure 2: Types of failure of space trusses with bars under compression. (a) Failures in space trusses with flattened-ends of the bars. (b) Fault in the roof space truss of the Dutch football club FC Twente. (c) Failure at the end of the space truss bars with cross section variation in the Shah Alam Stadium football in Malaysia.

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