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Keywords: masonry building compounds, static non-linear analysis, Italian Guidelines on Cultural Heritage, design chart, wall slenderness.

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Italian historic centers are a demonstration of centuries of civilization and culture and are currently considered as a touristic and economic irreplaceable resource. Masonry building aggregates are a large part of the Italian building heritage, which have been erected over the time without respecting seismic criteria.

The current seismic Italian code defines the general principles to be followed both to individual structural units within aggregate and to take into account the interactions among adjacent buildings in terms of loads. Nevertheless, a clear calculation method to foresee static non-linear behaviour of building compounds is not provided.

For this reason, in this paper a simple methodology based on the provisions of Italian Guidelines on Cultural Heritage has been established.

The implemented non-linear static procedure has been calibrated using the results of two structural analysis programs, namely the 3MURI software for masonry structures and the SAP2000 finite element program, used to investigate two case studies of masonry building compounds. The difference detected in terms of base shear between calculation programs and guidelines, the latter furnishing precautionary results, has enabled the preparation of a chart, where the variation of the theoretically calculated base shear with respect to refined values has been appraised on the basis of the wall slenderness.

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Front Page Browse CCP CSETS CTR IJRT Other Authors Search Purchase Guide FAQ Contact us	Civil-Comp Proceedings ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 102 PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING Edited by: Paper 66 Non-Linear Analysis of Masonry Building Compounds: A Comparison of Numerical and Theoretical Results A. Formisano, C. Castaldo and F.M. Mazzolani Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy doi:10.4203/ccp.102.66 purchase the full-text of this paper Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper A. Formisano, C. Castaldo, F.M. Mazzolani, "Non-Linear Analysis of Masonry Building Compounds: A Comparison of Numerical and Theoretical Results", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 66, 2013. doi:10.4203/ccp.102.66 Keywords: masonry building compounds, static non-linear analysis, Italian Guidelines on Cultural Heritage, design chart, wall slenderness. Summary Italian historic centers are a demonstration of centuries of civilization and culture and are currently considered as a touristic and economic irreplaceable resource. Masonry building aggregates are a large part of the Italian building heritage, which have been erected over the time without respecting seismic criteria. The current seismic Italian code defines the general principles to be followed both to individual structural units within aggregate and to take into account the interactions among adjacent buildings in terms of loads. Nevertheless, a clear calculation method to foresee static non-linear behaviour of building compounds is not provided. For this reason, in this paper a simple methodology based on the provisions of Italian Guidelines on Cultural Heritage has been established. The implemented non-linear static procedure has been calibrated using the results of two structural analysis programs, namely the 3MURI software for masonry structures and the SAP2000 finite element program, used to investigate two case studies of masonry building compounds. The difference detected in terms of base shear between calculation programs and guidelines, the latter furnishing precautionary results, has enabled the preparation of a chart, where the variation of the theoretically calculated base shear with respect to refined values has been appraised on the basis of the wall slenderness. purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20) go to the previous paper go to the next paper return to the table of contents return to the book description purchase this book (price £65 +P&P)
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