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Ramallo Building Implosion
Video of the Implosion Simulation
Contractor: Controlled Demolition and Recycling Co. (CDR)
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Description
- 9-story concrete structure
- Unfinished building
- Deteriorated structural elements
- As-builds & blueprints unavailable
- Neighboring occupied structures located along three adjacent sides
- 12 ft. wide street on fourth side
Modeling
- ASI engineers completely redesigned the building per codes of the year built
- Modeled complete 3D structure to include shear walls and reinforced concrete structural elements
- Accounted for deterioration of reinforcement
- Modeled non-structural masonry walls that may contribute to behavior of structure during demolition
Demolition Simulation
- ASI modeled numerous blast scenarios based on CDR’s plans to help determine the structure’s physical behavior
- Structural elements being blasted were modeled by deleting elements from the model in the location of the blast in the same sequence as the actual blast
Result
- Results shown here are not the actual demolition scenario that was carried out, but the scenarios that were tested
- Our scenarios helped plan for the actual demolition
- Differences between the actual demolition and our simulations are attributed to the difference in blast scenario and some missing structural details
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