Seismic response of a four-storey RC school building with masonry-infilled walls

Kok Tan, Hashim Abdul Razak (), Dagang Lu and Yanjun Li

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2015, vol. 78, issue 1, 153 pages

Abstract: This paper focuses on the evaluation of the effect of masonry-infilled walls on the seismic response of a four-storey RC school building. Numerical simulation is presented with respect to the building with and without masonry-infilled walls. The simulation employed force-based fibre elements for beams and columns, and a single equivalent diagonal strut to represent the masonry infill. The numerical model was verified through comparison with shake table test results. It was found that the presence of masonry-infilled walls has significant influence on the global response of the structure. Although the displacement of the structure with infilled wall is reduced in the in-plane direction, it was increased in both in-plane and out-of-plane directions when the infilled walls experienced loss in serviceability. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Seismic assessment; Equivalent strut model; Infilled RC frame; School building (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1706-x

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