Seismic analysis of a building block

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2011

Authors

Nuno Neves (Author) Other; António Arêde (Author) FEUP; Aníbal Costa (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

Vol. 8 No. 1

Pages: 1-33

ISSN: 1570-761X

Publisher: Springer Nature

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 4 Citations

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Scientific classification

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

FOS: Engineering and technology > Civil engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-002-DJB

DOI: 10.1007/s10518-011-9310-2

Abstract (EN): This paper reports on the study of the seismic response of an urban building block located in Faial, a town of the Horta Island of the Azores, Portugal. The work fits within the framework of studying strengthening schemes suitable for the reconstruction process of a town damaged by an earthquake action and includes numerical modelling of all the building blocks with calibration of material and structural parameters based on ambient vibration tests. The study aims at understanding a number of issues that are likely to influence the global behaviour of the block and the local response of individual buildings, namely the group effect of adjacent constructions, the in-plane stiffness of floors and/or roofs and the presence of possible localized strengthening interventions in selected parts of the block. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific