We devote a large part of our current spending to this line of research, which includes progressive collapse and the structural robustness of buildings and bridges.
The investigation, a combination of ambitious experimental campaigns on full-scale structures with advanced computational simulations, studies how an initial failure of one or more elements can propagate to the rest of the structure and proposes solutions to avoid these situations.
Tests of this type have so far been carried out on buildings, temporary shoring systems and steel railway bridges.
