In-plane seismic performance of open masonry walls retrofitted with steel-bar truss units

2022 ◽  
Vol 320 ◽  
pp. 126278
Author(s):  
Seung–Hyeon Hwang ◽  
Sanghee Kim ◽  
Ju–Hyun Mun ◽  
Keun–Hyeok Yang
2015 ◽  
Vol 141 (11) ◽  
pp. 04015038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Hassanli ◽  
Mohamed A. ElGawady ◽  
Julie E. Mills

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jian Wu ◽  
Liangcheng Zeng ◽  
Bo Wang

This paper presents the cyclic loading test results of a new type of fired shale hollow block masonry walls. Six specimens were designed including two specimens without reinforcements (bare walls) and four specimens constrained by structural columns (reinforced walls). The influences of aspect ratio, vertical compressive stress, and structural column on the seismic performance of the specimens were investigated. The failure mode, bearing capacity, ductility, stiffness degradation, and energy dissipation of specimens were analyzed. The results showed that the crack patterns of specimens changed from the horizontal straight shape (bare walls) to “X” shape (reinforced walls), and the corresponding bearing capacity, ductility, stiffness degradation, and energy dissipation of the specimens were improved. With the increase of the vertical compressive stress, the ductility and the secant stiffness of the specimens increased. Moreover, with the decrease of aspect ratio, the bearing capacity and secant stiffness of the masonry walls increased, while the energy dissipation capacity decreased. This paper confirms that fired shale hollow block walls could meet the seismic requirements through appropriate design, which could promote the application of this new type of block in civil engineering.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Azmat Ali Shah ◽  
Junaid Shah Khan ◽  
Syed Muhammad Ali ◽  
Khan Shahzada ◽  
Waqar Ahmad ◽  
...  

Half-scaled reinforced concrete frame of two storeys and two bays with unreinforced masonry (URM) infill walls was subjected to base excitation on a shake table for seismic performance evaluation. Considering the high seismic hazard Zone IV of Pakistan, reinforcement detailing in the RC frame is provided according to special moment resisting frames (SMFRs) requirement of Building Code of Pakistan Seismic-Provisions (BCP SP-2007). The reinforced concrete frame was infilled with in-plane solid masonry walls in its interior frame, in-plane masonry walls with door and window openings in the exterior frame, out-of-plane solid masonry wall, and masonry wall with door and window openings in its interior frame. For seismic capacity qualification test, the structure was subjected to three runs of unidirectional base excitation with increasing intensity. For system identification, ambient-free vibration tests were performed at different stages of experiment. Seismic performance of brick masonry infill walls in reinforced concrete frame structures was evaluated. During the shake table test, performance of URM infill walls was satisfactory until design ground acceleration was 0.40g with a global drift of 0.23%. The test was continued till 1.24g of base acceleration. This paper presents key findings from the shake table tests, including the qualitative damage observations and quantitative force-displacement, and hysteretic response of the test specimen at different levels of excitation. Experimental results of this test will serve as a benchmark for validation of numerical and analytical models.


2011 ◽  
Vol 243-249 ◽  
pp. 630-635
Author(s):  
Ying Jie Zhu ◽  
Lan Li ◽  
Wen Hui Yang

Seismic performance under low cyclic experimental study on the six of constructional column- core column composite reinforcement concrete block masnory wall is preasented in this paper, considering the height-width ratio, window hole and without window hole, the setting of the horizontal reinforcing steel bar in the walls. Failure process and failure pattern, hysteresis characteristics, bearing capacity, ductility, skeleton curves, the viscous damping coefficient, stiffness and steel strain change the properties are analyzed, respectivily. Test results shown that this kind of composite reinforced concrete block masnory system has better seismic performance.


2012 ◽  
Vol 226-228 ◽  
pp. 1098-1101
Author(s):  
Cheng Wang ◽  
Yong Kun Luo ◽  
Xiao Long Xu

With the rapid development of economy and the civil engineering discipline, the seismic performance of existing masonry wall can't satisfy the codes and regional seismic requirements. As a result, strengthening the earthquake resistance of it is put on the agenda. Using large-scale finite element software-abaqus, this paper analyzes different methods of strengthening masonry walls by constructional columns. Under the premise of the cross area of the columns used to reinforce is identical, it shows that the wall strengthened by bilateral constructional columns has a better seismic performance than by unilateral constructional column. The ductility coefficient of the former increases 49.4% than the original masonry, while the latter increases 26.3%. The bilateral constructional column could significantly improve the integrity and ductility of the masonry wall, so does the seismic performance. It has engineering sense for the strengthening work.


2020 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 101368
Author(s):  
Liang Huang ◽  
Yiqiu Lu ◽  
Libo Yan ◽  
Bohumil Kasal ◽  
Lu Wang ◽  
...  

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 2942
Author(s):  
Yun Liu ◽  
Gonglian Chen ◽  
Zhipeng Wang ◽  
Zhen Chen ◽  
Yujia Gao ◽  
...  

Autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) self-insulation block masonry is often used for the infill walls in steel and concrete frame structures. To work together with the frame under earthquake action, it is essential to understand the seismic behavior of AAC self-insulation block masonry walls. In this paper, six AAC self-insulation block masonry walls were experimentally studied under the pseudo static test. The load-displacement hysteretic curves were drawn with the test data. The failure characteristics, loading capacity, stiffness degeneration, energy dissipation capacity and hysteretic behavior are analyzed. The results indicate that the blocks underwent internal failure due to the lower strength with a larger size, but the walls had good energy dissipation capacity with a rational bearing capacity. Accompanied by the influence of vertical compressive stress on the top surface of the walls, the cracking resistance, ultimate bearing capacity, deformability and energy dissipation capacity of the walls were affected by the masonry mortar joints. Comparatively, the walls with thin-layer mortar joints had better seismic performance than those with insulation mortar joints or with vertical joints filled by mineral wool plates. Finally, the shear capacity of the walls under seismic load is evaluated referring to the formulas of current design codes for masonry walls.


2011 ◽  
Vol 287-290 ◽  
pp. 703-707
Author(s):  
Yan Han ◽  
Hong Cheng Guan ◽  
Zhen Li

Through experimental study on three HRB400 steel bar reinforced concrete columns subjected to low cyclic reversed loading, the failure patterns, hysteretic curves and skeleton curves were obtained. The influence of longitudinal high-strength reinforcement ratio upon the hysteretic characteristics, ductile behavior and ability of energy dissipation were analyzed. The results show that the main failure pattern was bending failure; and with the increscent of the longitudinal high-strength reinforcing steel bar ratio, the columns can endure larger seismic loads and displacement; the seismic performance of the whole reinforced concrete columns can be effectively improved by arranging reasonable high-strength steel bars.


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