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Simulation of masonry out‐of‐plane failure modes by multi‐body dynamics
Author(s) -
Costa Alexandre A.,
Penna Andrea,
Arêde António,
Costa Aníbal
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
earthquake engineering and structural dynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.218
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1096-9845
pISSN - 0098-8847
DOI - 10.1002/eqe.2596
Subject(s) - masonry , structural engineering , earthquake shaking table , unreinforced masonry building , nonlinear system , engineering , kinematics , displacement (psychology) , tension (geology) , geotechnical engineering , computer science , physics , compression (physics) , psychology , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist , thermodynamics
Summary 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 façade tested at Laboratório 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 © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.