Disasters from 2000-2019 led to $2.97 trillion economic loss and 1.23 million deaths, mainly due to building collapses from various extreme events like earthquakes, floods, and errors.
Current robustness approaches focus on preventing collapse initiation but may fail in larger failures, risking collapse propagation and questioning their adequacy.
Historically, structural robustness research emphasized preventing collapse initiation post-failures, neglecting collapse propagation prevention, leading to serious concerns.
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