Simulation of masonry out-of-plane failure modes by multi-body dynamics

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2015

Authors

Alexandre A. Costa (Author) Other; Andrea Penna (Author) Other; António Arêde (Author) FEUP; Aníbal Costa (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Vol. 44 No. 14

Pages: 2529-2549

ISSN: 0098-8847

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 9 Citations

Scopus - 11 Citations

Scientific classification

FOS: Engineering and technology > Civil engineering

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Civil engineering > Structural engineering

Associated Projects

PTDC/ECM/104520/2008 - Caraterização Experimental In-situ de Construções de Alvenaria de Pedra sob Acções Sísmicas

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00G-Q9Y

DOI: 10.1002/eqe.2596

Abstract (EN): The seismic assessment of the local failure modes in existing masonry buildings is currently based on the identification of the so-called local mechanisms, often associated with the out-of-plane wall behavior, whose stability is evaluated by static force-based approaches and, more recently, by some displacement-based proposals. Local mechanisms consist of kinematic chains of masonry portions, often regarded as rigid bodies, with geometric nonlinearity and concentrated nonlinearity in predefined contact regions (unilateral no-tension behavior, possible sliding with friction). In this work, the dynamic behavior of local mechanisms is simulated through multi-body dynamics, to obtain the nonlinear response with efficient time history analyses that directly take into account the characteristics of the ground motion. The amplification/filtering effects of the structure are considered within the input motion. The proposed approach is validated with experimental results of two full-scale shaking-table tests on stone masonry buildings: a sacco-stone masonry facade tested at Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil and a two-storey double-leaf masonry building tested at European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE). Copyright (c) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 21