Historical masonry building aggregates: advanced numerical insight for an effective seismic assessment on two row housing compounds

2019 ◽  
Vol 190 ◽  
pp. 360-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Valente ◽  
Gabriele Milani ◽  
Ernesto Grande ◽  
Antonio Formisano
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Assessment ◽  
Masonry Building ◽  
Historical Masonry ◽  
Building Aggregates

Preservation of Historical Masonry Building by House Moving

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 668-673
Author(s):  
T. Kitamura ◽  
K. Tohkai ◽  
F. Kawagishi ◽  
M. Onishi
Keyword(s):  
Masonry Building ◽  
Historical Masonry

Seismic Assessment of Masonry Building Clusters with a Dedicated NLA Software

2016 ◽  
Vol 847 ◽  
pp. 191-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Vailati ◽  
Giorgio Monti ◽  
Giorgia di Gangi
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Approach ◽  
Seismic Assessment ◽  
Masonry Building ◽  
Structural Units ◽  
Global Response ◽  
Computational Tools ◽  
Modeling And Analysis ◽  
Future Version ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Typical Scenario

A building context as complex as that of many historical centers in Europe is the typical scenario where more and more technicians found themselves at work. In addition to the usual difficulty of dealing with the complexity of masonry building clusters, they particularly feel the lack of the essential support of dedicated computational tools. In fact, the calculation codes currently available do not address modeling and analysis of building clusters in a personalized manner. VENUS, Italian acronym for Nonlinear Assessment of Structural Units, is a software developed in C++, which deals with the seismic assessment of building clusters in an integrated manner, accompanying the practitioner from the early stages of defining the level of knowledge, to the management of the design quantities, until the graphic elaboration of the results. Finally, it allows to test the effectiveness of a local intervention with traditional and innovative strengthening techniques and to evaluate its effects on the global response. Finally, a brief description of a stochastic approach foreseen in a future version of the software is discussed.

scholarly journals Analysis of Equivalent Diaphragm Vault Structures in Masonry Construction under Horizontal Forces

Heritage ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 989-1017
Author(s):  
Pier Silvio Marseglia ◽  
Francesco Micelli ◽  
Maria Antonietta Aiello
Keyword(s):  
Seismic Design ◽  
Complex Geometry ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Masonry Building ◽  
Masonry Construction ◽  
Horizontal Connections ◽  
Historical Masonry ◽  
Side Walls ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Ideal

In seismic areas, masonry construction is prone to brittle failures due to the mechanical behavior of the constituent materials and to the low capacity of force redistributions. The redistribution capacity is mainly due to the presence of horizontal connections upon the walls and to the stiffness of the roof, which is typically a vaulted structure. The modeling of the global behavior of a masonry building, taking into account the accurate stiffness of the vaults, is a major issue in seismic design and assessment. The complex geometry of the vaults can be considered as an equivalent plate, able to replicate the stiffness behavior and the force redistribution capacity of the real vault. In this study, the efforts of the authors are addressed to the definition of a plate, able to replace the vaulted surfaces in a global numerical model. The ideal diaphragm is considered as a generally orthotropic plate with the same footprint and the same thickness of the original vault. An extended parametric study was conducted in which the mechanical and geometrical parameters were varied, such as the vault thickness, its dimensions, the constraint conditions, and the possible presence of side walls. The results are presented and discussed herein, with the aim of providing useful information to the researchers and practitioners involved in seismic analyses of historical masonry construction.

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