masonry buildings
Seismic vulnerability assessment of existing masonry buildings: case study of the old city centre of Faro, Portugal
... The seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of old city centre areas is truly essential in urban rehabilitation programs and should not be focused exclusively over recognized historical and patrimonial valuable ...
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Site investigation of masonry buildings damaged during the 23 October and 9 November 2011 Van Earthquakes in Turkey
... to masonry buildings after a series of earthquakes that occurred in Van, which is an eastern city of Turkey, within 17 days in 2011, ...of buildings in the city of Van and its villages and especially ...
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Sensitivity analysis of the seismic behavior of ancient masonry buildings
... Ancient buildings where mostly made of masonry, which is a composite material of units (brick, block, stone) and mortar (clay, cement, chalk, ...the masonry are depending on the properties of the ...
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Seismic performance and strengthening of traditional masonry buildings in the city centre of Coimbra
... old buildings in urban centres relies a great deal on the structural safety evaluation of vertical load capacity but also the capable resistance to horizontal ...traditional masonry buildings is a ...
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Evaluation of strengthening techniques of traditional masonry buildings: case study of a four-building aggregate
... old buildings in urban centers relies a great deal on the structural safety evaluation of vertical load capacity and the ability to resist horizontal ...traditional masonry buildings, is a key ...old ...
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Seismic evaluation of old masonry buildings: performance and strengthening
... the models, which cannot reproduce exactly the real structural behaviour of these fragile regions of old masonry buildings. Tie rods can be used to improve the bonding conditions, threading together the ...
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Three-dimensional modelling of wall-beam interaction in structural masonry buildings
... According to Testoni [11], the flat finite element model encompasses several behavioral traits of walls in structural analysis. However, to obtain more detailed results, the number of computational modeling unknowns and ...
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A mechanical method for the vulnerability assessment of masonry buildings
... This research has presented a mechanical model for the vulnerability assessment of masonry buildings. The analytical formulation has allowed the discussion and interpretation of uncertainties that affect ...
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Linear regression model to estimate CDW generation in structural masonry buildings Marcelo Oliveira Caetano Asafe Bonisoni Fagundes Luciana Paulo Gomes Resumo
... FORMOSO, C. T. et al. Material Waste in Building Industry: main causes and prevention. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, v. 128, n. 4, p. 316-325, 2002. HAIR JUNIOR, J. F. et al. Análise Multivariada de ...
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Experimental evaluation of the out-of-plane behaviour of traditional stone masonry buildings in Azores, Portugal
... traditional masonry build- ings after the earthquake that hit the Portuguese archipelago of Azores in 1998, three in-situ test were defined and performed with the application of quasi-static surface loads ...
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Safety analysis of modern heritage masonry buildings: Box-buildings in Recife, Brazil
... The results of the analysis considering only vertical loading show good agreement between the crack patterns observed in the structure and the damage achieved numerically at the current condition (LF=1). The failure mode ...
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Seismic vulnerability and risk assessment of historic masonry buildings
... uncertainties, as very limited consolidate evidence exist to perform such corre- lation over a wide range of building typologies and shaking levels. While robust database of damage states exist in literature no attempt ...
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Structural Behaviour and Retrofitting of Adobe Masonry Buildings
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Ductile connection characterization regarding seismic retrofitting of masonry buildings
... However, wall diaphragm connections for URM buildings haven’t been deeply studied leading to a lack of data on inelastic force–displacement behaviour of wall-diaphragm connections. Force-displacement behaviour, in ...
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Analysis and characterisation of masonry walls
... with masonry, the Egyptian Pyramids, the Colosseum in Rome, India’s Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of ...in masonry work varies from laying a simple masonry wall to installing an ornate exterior or ...
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Seismic vulnerability assessment of masonry facade walls
... traditional masonry buildings through the development of a methodology and its subsequent application to the old building stock of the historical city centre of ...of masonry buildings in ...
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Seismic safety assessment of unreinforced masonry low-rise buildings in Pakistan and its neighbourhood
... The buildings which have received the most severe dam- age in the recent earthquakes are mostly unreinforced stone, concrete block, and masonry buildings (see ...example buildings suffering ...
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The masonry behaviour under contact detonation
... one masonry response of a blast impulse is its deflection which could be considered as a criterion for collapsing wall under ...the masonry deflection exceeds the wall thickness then it would ...and ...
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PAHO field office buildings
... There are no developments to report regarding these two projects as no agreements have been reached with respect to the land to be used for the construction of the PAHO buildings. This b[r] ...
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HIGH PERFORMANCE GREEN BUILDINGS
... the buildings with a lower-performance envelope. In large buildings, internal heat sources (people, lighting, equipment) will dominate envelope heat gains, while in highly insulated buildings with ...
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