S02 655: USE OF FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS TO INVESTIGATE THE STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR OF MASONRY ARCH BRIDGES SUBJECT TO FOUNDATION SETTLEMENT
A.Naggasa1, L. Augusthus-Nelson1, and J. Haynes1 1) Directorate of Civil Engineering, University of Salford Newton Building, Salford, Greater Manchester, M5 4WT e-mail: {a.m.naggasa, l.augusthusnelson, b.j.haynes}@salford.ac.uk Keywords: Masonry arch bridges, FEM, […]
S02 660: VULNERABILITY PARAMETERIZATION FOR MASONRY CHIMNEYS BY MEANS OF A LIMIT ANALYSIS APPROACH
Rafael Shehu1, Gracia López-Patiño2, Gabriele Milani1, José M. Adam3, and Marco Valente1 1) Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci 32, 20133 […]
S02 666: A ‘PARSIMONIOUS’ 3D DISCRETE MACRO-ELEMENT METHOD FOR MASONRY ARCH BRIDGES
S. Caddemi1, I. Caliò1, F. Cannizzaro1, D. D’Urso1, G. Occhipinti2, B. Pantò1, G. Pisanelli3, D. Rapicavoli1, G. Spirolazzi3, and R. Zurlo3 1) Dept. of Engineering and Architecture, University of Catania, […]
S02 675: EXPERIMENTAL TESTING ON A REAL-SCALE MASONRY CROSSVAULT
Benjamín Torres1, Paula Rinaudo1, Pedro A. Calderón1, Juan J. Moragues1, and Jose M. Adam1 1) ICITECH, Universitat Politècnica de València Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain e-mail: {bentorgo, pauri, […]
S03 386-2: RELIABILITY OF UNREINFORCED MASONRY WALLS SUBJECT TO WIND LOAD IN CANADA
Amir Rezaeivahdati1, Lisa R. Feldman2 1) M.Sc. Student, University of Saskatchewan, Dept. of Civil, Geological, and Environmental Engineering 57 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK, S7N 5A9, Canada e-mail: amr277@mail.usask.ca 2) Associate […]
S03 438: TOP CORNER FAILURE OF UNREINFORCED MASONRY BUILDINGS
James D. Finnegan1, Phillip Z. Geist1, and Sara Ganzerli1 1) Gonzaga University, Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, 502 East Boone Avenue, Spokane, WA 99258-0026 e-mail: […]
S03 449-2: DISTINCT ELEMENT MODELLING OF THE IN-PLANE FAILURE MECHANISMS OF URM WALLS
Daniele Malomo1, Matthew J. DeJong2, and Andrea Penna1, 3 1) Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Pavia, Via Ferrata 3 Pavia, 27100, Italy e-mail: daniele.malomo01@universitadipavia.it, andrea.penna@unipv.it 2) Department […]
S03 451: CRACK INITIATION AND PROPAGATION IN UNREINFORCED MASONRY STRUCTURES SUBJECTED TO REPEATED LOAD AND EARTHQUAKE VIBRATIONS
Paul A. Korswagen1, Edwin Meulman2, Michele Longo2, and Jan G. Rots2 1) Delft University of Technology Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, NL e-mail: p.a.korswageneguren@tudelft.nl 2) Delft University of Technology Stevinweg […]
S03 520: GLOBAL BEHAVIOUR OF COUPLED UNREINFORCED MASONRYREINFORCED CONCRETE WALL STRUCTURES
Hervé Degée1, Florian Frederickx2, and Bram Vandoren3 Construction Engineering Research Group, Hasselt University Agoralaan, Building H, 3590, Diepenbeek (Belgium) e-mail: 1 herve.degee@uhasselt.be, 2 florian.frederickx@uhaselt.be, 3 bram.vandoren@uhasselt.be Keywords: unreinforced masonry, reinforced […]
S03 525-2: CAN COMPRESSED AND STABILIZED EARTH BLOCK MATERIALS BE REGARDED AS HOMOGENEOUS AND ISOTROPIC?
Erika L. Rengifo-López1, Nitin Kumar2, Fabio Matta1 and Michele Barbato2 1) Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of South Carolina 300 Main Street, Columbia, SC (USA) e-mail: rengifol@email.sc.edu, fmatta@sc.edu […]
S03 541: EFFECTS OF NEW OPENINGS ON THE IN-PLANE BEHAVIOR OF UNREINFORCED BRICK MASONRY WALLS
Mónica Y. Oña Vera1, Giovanni Metelli1, Joaquim A.O. Barros 2, and Giovanni Plizzari1 1) Department of Civil, Environmental, Architectural Engineering and Mathematics. University of Brescia, Via Branze 43, Brescia, Italy. […]
S03 606-2: ONE WAY BENDING CAPACITY PREDICTION OF UNREINFORCED MASONRY WALLS WITH VARYING CROSS SECTION CONFIGURATIONS
Francisco Galvez1, Luigi Sorrentino2, Jason M. Ingham1, Dmytro Dizhur1 1) Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland (New Zealand) e-mail: {fglv390,ddiz001}@aucklanduni.ac.nz, j.ingham@auckland.ac.nz 2) Dept. of Structural and […]