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Dynamic testing of a four-storey building with reinforced concrete and unreinforced masonry walls: Prediction, test results and data set

Beyer, Katrin  
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Tondelli, Marco  
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Petry, Sarah  
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2015
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering

This paper presents the results of a series of shake-table tests on a half-scale, four-storey building with reinforced concrete (RC) and unreinforced masonry (URM) walls. Due to the lack of reference tests, the seismic behaviour of such mixed structures is poorly understood. The test unit was subjected to several runs of increasing intensity yielding performance states between minor damage and near collapse. Before the test, the expected peak table accelerations leading to different limit states were estimated using the capacity spectrum method, and the predicted values corresponded rather well to actual sustained accelerations. Next to these analyses, the paper describes the test unit, instrumentation and input motion, and comments on the response of the mixed structure in terms of damage evolution and global response quantities, such as force-displacement response and drift and acceleration profiles. The raw and post-processed data sets are made publically available, and all relevant information with regard to data organisation is described in an appendix to this paper. The test serves therefore as a benchmark for the validation of numerical models of such mixed structures. The project aims at providing a foundation for the development of seismic design and assessment methods of mixed structures, which are currently not covered by structural codes, including Eurocode 8.

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research article
DOI
10.1007/s10518-015-9752-z
Web of Science ID

WOS:000361000000010

Author(s)
Beyer, Katrin  
Tondelli, Marco  
Petry, Sarah  
Peloso, Simone
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Published in
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
Volume

13

Issue

10

Start page

3015

End page

3064

Subjects

Shake-table test

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Unreinforced masonry wall

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Reinforced concrete wall

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Mixed structure

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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March 25, 2015
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