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Bowen Zeng and Yong Li
Masonry is among the most widely used construction materials around the world. Contemporary masonry buildings are primarily designed to comply with prescriptive building code regulations. In recent decades, performance-based design (PBD) has gained incre...
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Maria Giovanna Masciotta and Paulo B. Lourenço
The preservation and seismic risk mitigation of built cultural heritage is considered today as a major priority in the international political agenda. Among the great variety of heritage structures spread worldwide, masonry towers belong to one of the mo...
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Asem Sharbaf, Mohammadreza Bemanian, Khosro Daneshjoo and Hamzeh Shakib
It is necessary to recognize masonry domes? behavior under gravity loads in order to strengthen, restore, and conserve them. The neutral hoop plays a crucial role in identifying the masonry dome?s behavior to distinguish between its tensile and compressi...
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Abide Asikoglu, Graça Vasconcelos and Paulo B. Lourenço
Performance-based design plays a significant role in the structural and earthquake engineering community to ensure both safety and economic feasibility. Its application to masonry building design/assessment is limited and requires straightforward rules c...
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Chao Liu, Xiangyun Nong, Fengjian Zhang, Zonggang Quan and Guoliang Bai
This paper aims to manufacture recycled concrete hollow block (RCHB) which can be used for the masonry structure with seismic requirements. Five RCHB masonry walls were tested under cyclic loading to evaluate the effect of the axial compression stress, a...
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Unreinforced stone masonry made of low strength mortar has been used for centuries in forming old type stone masonry churches of the “Basilica” typology. The seismic performance of such stone masonry structures damaged during recent strong se...
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A. Aviram,J.W. Badillo,J.A. Prieto,J.D. Jaramillo
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Several methodologies used for the collapse assessment of an unreinforced brick masonry wall subject to out-of-plane bending due to moderate wind loads in Medellin, Colombia are presented. Models include a rigid cantilever model of masonry elements, defo...
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Panuwat Joyklad, Nazam Ali, Salvatore Verre, Hassan M. Magbool, Amr Elnemr, Muhammad Irshad Qureshi, Qudeer Hussain and Krisada Chaiyasarn
In the past, fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have been extensively used to modify the structural response of masonry brick walls. The promising advantages of FRP composites are easy application, lightweight, and very high tensile strength. Howe...
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Bora Pulatsu, Semih Gonen and Paulo B. Lourenço
Unreinforced masonry structures are susceptible to man-made hazards such as impact and blast loading. However, the literature on this subject mainly focuses on masonry wall behavior, and there is a knowledge gap about the behavior of masonry arches under...
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Ilaria Capanna, Angelo Aloisio, Franco Di Fabio and Massimo Fragiacomo
The city of L?Aquila (Italy) includes a significant amount of masonry palaces erected from the middle of the 13th century up to the first half of the 20th century. This paper focuses on the seismic response of a masonry palace built during the first half...
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Mariateresa Guadagnuolo, Marianna Aurilio, Andrea Basile and Giuseppe Faella
The assessment of the modulus of elasticity and compressive strength of masonry is a fundamental step in the seismic analysis of existing structures. In this paper, the representativeness of the values provided by flat-jack tests for tuff masonry is inve...
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Sipho G. Thango, Georgios A. Drosopoulos, Siphesihle M. Motsa and Georgios E. Stavroulakis
A methodology to predict key aspects of the structural response of masonry walls under blast loading using artificial neural networks (ANN) is presented in this paper. The failure patterns of masonry walls due to in and out-of-plane loading are complex d...
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Maria Luisa Beconcini, Paolo Formichi, Linda Giresini, Filippo Landi, Benedetta Puccini and Pietro Croce
The assessment of seismic performance of existing masonry structures is a key aspect for the risk mitigation strategies of existing buildings and preservation of historical heritage. The increasing availability of modelling approaches for the assessment ...
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Nuno Monteiro Azevedo, Fernando F. S. Pinho, Ildi Cismasiu and Murilo Souza
To predict the structural behaviour of ancient stone masonry walls is still a challenging task due to their strong heterogeneity. A rubble-stone masonry modeling methodology using a 2D particle model (2D-PM), based on the discrete element method is propo...
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Bimkubwa Seif Ali, Juan Jose Castro, Shogo Omi and Karishma Nazimi
Ancient civilizations have imprinted their legacy on Zanzibar Stone Town through the construction of revered stone masonry buildings, which are experiencing rapid deterioration due to severe ambient environmental impacts. In response to these challenges,...
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Bin Chi, Yuhu Quan, Fenglai Wang and Xu Yang
Prestressing technology is an effective way to improve the seismic performance of masonry structures such as concrete masonry wall. Therefore, bonded prestressing technology applied to integrated concrete masonry wall (ICMW) was proposed in this study, a...
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Bora Pulatsu, Rhea Wilson, Jose V. Lemos and Neboj?a Mojsilovic
Unreinforced masonry (URM) walls are common load-bearing structural elements in most existing buildings, consisting of masonry units (bricks) and mortar joints. They indicate a highly nonlinear and complex behaviour when subjected to combined compression...
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Fahriye Akar, Ercan Isik, Fatih Avcil, Aydin Büyüksaraç, Enes Arkan and Rabia Izol
On 6 February 2023, two independent earthquake pairs on the East Anatolian Fault Zone, with epicenters in Pazarcik (Mw = 7.7) and Elbistan (Mw = 7.6) districts of Kahramanmaras province, caused great destruction. Adiyaman and Gölbasi districts of this ci...
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Rafael Ramirez, Rosana Muñoz and Paulo B. Lourenço
This paper presents an experimental and analytical methodology for the mechanical characterization of metal anchors in ancient brick masonry walls. The presented results contribute to the identification of the most efficient anchoring systems for strengt...
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Yidong Chen, Xiang Ji, Dongting Xu, Xi Zhou, Yujing Wang and Yixiao Hu
To enhance the continuity of character in the preservation of architectural heritage, this approach focuses on the horizontal self-similarity characteristics of architectural texture. A method using K-means and the Bhattacharyya approach for color select...
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