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Engineering Structures 82 (2015) 261–267 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Engineering Structures journal homepage: /locate/engstruct Fire induced progressive collapse of steel building structures: A review of the mechanisms Gian-Luca F. Porcari a,1, Ehab Zalok a,⇑, Waleed Mekky b,2 a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada b AMEC NSS, Power and Process Americas, 393 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 1E6, Canada a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this paper, a literature review of the mechanisms involved in fire induced progressive collapse of steel Received 29 August 2012 building structures are presented. Researchers have been investigating progressive collapse of building Revised 20 August 2014 structures for some time. With the changing political climate around the world highlighted by the events Accepted 4 September 2014 of September 11th, 2001, researchers have begun to further study the mechanisms of fire induced struc- Available online 3 October 2014 tural collapse of steel building structures. Furthermore, with the use of performance based building codes throughout the world, engineers can now investigate the use of alternative structural fire protection Keywords: strategies. This summary provides a brief overview of conventional fire