Open AccessMasonry strength influence on the buildings’ performance
Author(s) -
Sorina Constantinescu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/789/1/012012
Subject(s) - masonry , stiffness , structural engineering , unreinforced masonry building , ductility (earth science) , acceleration , materials science , geotechnical engineering , geology , engineering , composite material , physics , creep , classical mechanics
This paper studied the behaviour of a medium height, confined masonry walls building, in a medium seismic area (0.25 g , where g is the gravity acceleration), in Iasi, Romania. The study focuses on different masonry strengths impact on the building’s elastic and plastic behaviour. It is important to establish if the structure can bare the gravitational and seismic loads if weaker bricks are used and also how the plastic mechanism is formed if the walls are made of stronger and stiffer masonry. It is also highlighted how the beams stiffness affects the structure ductility and how it can be improved. The building does not have the same stiffness on both X and Y directions, so this will also be taken into account.