scholarly journals BLAST EFFECTS AND DAMAGE CHARACTERIZATION ON REINFORCED MASONRY WALLS AT FULL-SCALE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARÍA CHIQUITO ◽  
LINA M. LÓPEZ ◽  
RICARDO CASTEDO ◽  
ANASTASIO P. SANTOS ◽  
ALEJANDRO PÉREZ-CALDENTEY
Keyword(s):  
Full Scale ◽  
Masonry Walls ◽  
Damage Characterization ◽  
Reinforced Masonry ◽  
Blast Effects

Full‐scale shake‐table tests on two unreinforced masonry cavity‐wall buildings: effect of an innovative timber retrofit

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Miglietta ◽  
Nicolò Damiani ◽  
Gabriele Guerrini ◽  
Francesco Graziotti
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Vulnerability ◽  
Concrete Slab ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Unreinforced Masonry ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Cavity Wall ◽  
Masonry Walls ◽  
Shake Table ◽  
Earthquake Excitation ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Slab

AbstractTwo full-scale building specimens were tested on the shake-table at the EUCENTRE Foundation laboratories in Pavia (Italy), to assess the effectiveness of an innovative timber retrofit solution, within a comprehensive research campaign on the seismic vulnerability of existing Dutch unreinforced masonry structures. The buildings represented the end-unit of a two-storey terraced house typical of the North-Eastern Netherlands, a region affected by induced seismicity over the last few decades. This building typology is particularly vulnerable to earthquake excitation due to lack of seismic details and irregular distribution of large openings in masonry walls. Both specimens were built with the same geometry. Their structural system consisted of cavity walls, with interior load-bearing calcium-silicate leaf and exterior clay veneer, and included a first-floor reinforced concrete slab, a second-floor timber framing, and a roof timber structure supported by masonry gables. A timber retrofit was designed and installed inside the second specimen, providing an innovative sustainable, light-weight, reversible, and cost-effective technique, which could be extensively applied to actual buildings. Timber frames were connected to the interior surface of the masonry walls and completed by oriented strands boards nailed to them. The second-floor timber diaphragm was stiffened and strengthened by a layer of oriented-strand boards, nailed to the existing joists and to additional blocking elements through the existing planks. These interventions resulted also in improved wall-to-diaphragm connections with the inner leaf at both floors, while steel ties were added between the cavity-wall leaves. The application of the retrofit system favored a global response of the building with increased lateral capacities of the masonry walls. This paper describes in detail the bare and retrofitted specimens, compares the experimental results obtained through similar incremental dynamic shake-table test protocols up to near-collapse conditions, and identifies damage states and damage limits associated with displacements and deformations.

scholarly journals In-plane shear strength and damage fragility functions for partially-grouted reinforced masonry walls with bond-beam reinforcement

2021 ◽  
Vol 242 ◽  
pp. 112569
Author(s):  
Zhiming Zhang ◽  
Juan Murcia-Delso ◽  
Cristián Sandoval ◽  
Gerardo Araya-Letelier ◽  
Fenglai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Shear Strength ◽  
Masonry Walls ◽  
Fragility Functions ◽  
Plane Shear ◽  
Reinforced Masonry
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