Challenges and recent outputs on the experimental characterization of infill masonry walls out-of-plane behaviour

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2018-11-04

Autores

André Furtado (Autor) FEUP; Hugo Rodrigues (Autor) Outra; António Arêde (Autor) FEUP; Humberto Varum (Autor) FEUP

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: Proceedings of the 1st Iberic Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Mechanics and Materials / 11th National Congress on Experimental Mechanics

Páginas: 803-808

Proceedings of the 1st Iberic Conference on Theoretical and Experimental Mechanics and Materials / 11th National Congress on Experimental Mechanics

Porto/Portugal, 4-7 November 2018

Classificação Científica

CORDIS: Ciências Tecnológicas > Engenharia > Engenharia civil > Engenharia estrutural

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Engenharia civil

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Abstract (EN): It is widely consensual that further and deeper research is required on the out-of-plane seismic response of infill masonry walls to reduce the vulnerability of such elements and to develop effective retrofit strategies for preventing panel collapse, increasing human life protection and reducing economic losses. This type of study is also important to support the development of accurate numerical models able to represent the expected response of infill walls subjected to out-of-plane loadings, combined or not with in-plane loadings. In this context, experimental testing is an excellent tool to characterize the infill masonry walls walls cyclic behaviour subjected to static or dynamic loads. For this, at the Laboratory for Earthquake and Structural Engineering (LESE) of the University of Porto, an experimental campaign of quasi-static outof-plane of full-scale infill masonry walls was carried out. An innovative testing set-up was developed in order to perform these tests using airbags which was lately upgraded with pneumatic actuators. The main details regarding each approach will be provided and discussed

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 6