dc.contributor |
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria de la Construcció |
dc.contributor |
Oliveira, Daniel V. |
dc.contributor.author |
Tilahun Bogale, Habtamu |
dc.date |
2009-07-15 |
dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/8305 |
dc.language.iso |
eng |
dc.publisher |
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
dc.rights |
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.rights |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
dc.subject |
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil |
dc.subject |
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geotècnia |
dc.subject |
Estructures, Teoria de les |
dc.subject |
Sismologia |
dc.subject |
Construccions de maó -- Manteniment i reparació |
dc.subject |
Edificis -- Efectes dels terratrèmols |
dc.title |
Seismic limit analysis of masonry structures |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
dc.description.abstract |
This thesis presents the limit analysis of masonry structures under the lateral
exposures, that’s the most intentionally given sudden earthquakes and also to the associated
lateral forces. The current study here in is concerned firstly on the parametric analysis of
masonry walls to the lateral loads. Secondly, the analyses of representative existing masonry
walls under lateral exposures are done. A simple user friendly but very important software,
named Block, is used for this study. It is based on the rigid block modelling concept. In the
parametric part, the basic and immediate first step, it is studied the relation of seismic safety
factor with respect to the masonry wall shapes, masonry unit sizes, type of masonry bond,
compressive stress and also the effect of overloading in which they are applied for a
significant set of masonry two dimensional walls and their associated collapse mechanisms to
lateral loads. The software gives the safety factor for a certain masonry structure as a function
of the gravitational load of the masonry and the overloads on the masonry that are in the
direction of gravity. With this, it was possible to know the relations among safety factor and
other parameters. |