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CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 180

A Simple Kinematical Model of Frame-Masonry Shear-Wall Systems

S. Di Nino, F. D'Annibale and A. Luongo

International Research Center on Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems, University of L'Aquila, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
S. Di Nino, F. D'Annibale, A. Luongo, "A Simple Kinematical Model of Frame-Masonry Shear-Wall Systems", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 180, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.180
Keywords: infill masonry framed, opening effects, Galerkin discretization, shear cracking, sliding phenomena, equivalent damping..

Summary
This paper evaluates the dissipation and deformation capacities of frame-masonry shear-wall systems. A simple planar model, consisting of a rectangular cracked masonry shear-wall containing a rectangular centered window, confined on three sides by a concrete portal, is considered. Sliding shear and diagonal shear modes are taken into account when a horizontal (monotonic or cyclic) load is applied to the top of the portal. The adopted strategy is based on: an appropriate definition of the kinematics of the cracked wall; an extended Galerkin-based variational formulation for the derivation of the equations of motion; an interface modeling of the sliding interactions along of the cracks; an ad-hoc implementation of the resolution algorithm, based on a predictor-corrector scheme. As a final result, a damped one-DOF freedom oscillator is defined by using an energy-based equivalence criterion.

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