Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11953
Title: Lateral performance and load carrying capacity of an unreinforced, CFRP-retrofitted historical masonry vault - A case study
Contributor(s): Mahini, Seyed Saeed  (author); Eslami, A (author); Ronagh, Hamid R (author)
Publication Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2011.08.013
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11953
Abstract: Historical masonry buildings, composed of adobe/brick building blocks that are connected together with clay, lime-clay, or gypsum-clay mortars are vulnerable to earthquake. Many of these historical buildings are world heritage listed. They are highly valued and it is important that they are evaluated for their capacity to resist earthquakes, or strengthened if found not to be adequate. In this paper, the structural behavior and lateral resistance of a heritage brick vault with adobe piers built in 1935, Yazd, Iran is investigated under lateral loads. A nonlinear finite element analysis is used based on the concepts of homogenized material and smeared model in which the masonry is modelled as an anisotropic continuum. For this macro-modelling, the mechanical properties of continuum masonry are determined by experimental tests. Based on the literature review performed in this paper, no similar tests on structures of this kind have been identified elsewhere. Finally, the vault and the piers were retrofitted using Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) laminates at extrados in order to compare their failure mechanisms and lateral strength before and after retrofitting.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Construction and Building Materials, 28(1), p. 146-156
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 0950-0618
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 090505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management
090504 Earthquake Engineering
090506 Structural Engineering
090503 Construction Materials
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 400508 Infrastructure engineering and asset management
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 870299 Construction Design not elsewhere classified
870304 Stone, Ceramics and Clay Materials
870204 Residential Construction Design
870203 Industrial Construction Design
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 120305 Stone, ceramics and clay materials
120205 Residential construction design
120203 Industrial construction design
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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