Recent Italian seismic events highlighted the high vulnerability frequently shown by non structural elements, especially masonry infill walls, whose severe damage caused heavy socio-economic effects, thus also representing a serious source of risk to life safety. NTC2008 Italian code prescribes a specific safety verification for infill walls whose implementation appears to be rather difficult since no capacity model is provided. In this paper the results of the prominent experimental studies performed on infill types usually adopted in the Italian built environment, and subjected to out-of-plane loads, have been analysed. Aimed at suggesting a capacity model to be used in the safety verifications, the experimental results have been compared with those obtained from some models available in literature (described in a companion paper, Masi et al., 2014) in order to verify their capability in the prediction of the out-of-plane capacity.
Prestazioni fuori dal piano di tamponature in laterizio in zona sismica - Parte 2: analisi di dati sperimentali e confronto con i modelli di capacità
MASI, Angelo;MANFREDI, VINCENZO;
2015-01-01
Abstract
Recent Italian seismic events highlighted the high vulnerability frequently shown by non structural elements, especially masonry infill walls, whose severe damage caused heavy socio-economic effects, thus also representing a serious source of risk to life safety. NTC2008 Italian code prescribes a specific safety verification for infill walls whose implementation appears to be rather difficult since no capacity model is provided. In this paper the results of the prominent experimental studies performed on infill types usually adopted in the Italian built environment, and subjected to out-of-plane loads, have been analysed. Aimed at suggesting a capacity model to be used in the safety verifications, the experimental results have been compared with those obtained from some models available in literature (described in a companion paper, Masi et al., 2014) in order to verify their capability in the prediction of the out-of-plane capacity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
