scholarly journals CONSTRUCTION PHASES ANALYSIS OF UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS THROUGH EQUIVALENT FRAME MODEL

Author(s):  
Francesco Pugi ◽  
Alessio Francioso ◽  
Giacomo Sevieri



Structures ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 879-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Sandoli ◽  
Christian Musella ◽  
Gian Piero Lignola ◽  
Bruno Calderoni ◽  
Andrea Prota


Buildings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Igor Tomić ◽  
Francesco Vanin ◽  
Ivana Božulić ◽  
Katrin Beyer

Though flexible diaphragms play a role in the seismic behaviour of unreinforced masonry buildings, the effect of the connections between floors and walls is rarely discussed or explicitly modelled when simulating the response of such buildings. These flexible diaphragms are most commonly timber floors made of planks and beams, which are supported on recesses in the masonry walls and can slide when the friction resistance is reached. Using equivalent frame models, we capture the effects of both the diaphragm stiffness and the finite strength of wall-to-diaphragm connections on the seismic behaviour of unreinforced masonry buildings. To do this, we use a newly developed macro-element able to simulate both in-plane and out-of-plane behaviour of the masonry walls and non-linear springs to simulate wall-to-wall and wall-to-diaphragm connections. As an unretrofitted case study, we model a building on a shake table, which developed large in-plane and out-of-plane displacements. We then simulate three retrofit interventions: Retrofitted diaphragms, connections, and diaphragms and connections. We show that strengthening the diaphragm alone is ineffective when the friction capacity of the wall-to-diaphragm connection is exceeded. This also means that modelling an unstrengthened wall-to-diaphragm connection as having infinite stiffness and strength leads to unrealistic box-type behaviour. This is particularly important if the equivalent frame model should capture both global in-plane and local out-of-plane failure modes.



2013 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 1787-1799 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergio Lagomarsino ◽  
Andrea Penna ◽  
Alessandro Galasco ◽  
Serena Cattari




2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossein Derakhshan ◽  
Wade D. Lucas ◽  
Michael C. Griffith




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