Structural testing of clay tile walls testing and evaluation program
- Tennessee Univ., Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept. of Civil Engineering
- Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Martin Marietta Energy Systems, inc. is conducting a comprehensive program to assess the safety of critical Department of Energy facilities to natural phenomena hazards. Many of these facilities at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant were constructed in the mid to late 1940s and are comprised of unreinforced hollow clay tile infilled steel frames.The assessment of these facilities includes the development of a rational method of evaluating hollow clay tile infilled frame structures subjected to seismic forces. This document provides guidance for the various testing and analysis activities to be performed in the development of the evaluation methodology. This document contains a review of literature pertaining to masonry infilled steel frames, preliminary analysis of infilled frame structures, a discussion of applicable destructive andnondestructive testing procedures for hollow clay tile, and a description of numerical analysis tasks for hollow clay tile structures. The physical testing procedures are broadly divided into three categories: existing conditions, material properties and system behavior. The state of knowledge of hollow clay tile infilled frame behavior as ft exists near the beginning of the testing and evaluation program is presented. As the evaluation program continues and more is learned about the behavior of hollow clay tile infills, portions of this document may be outdated and/or superseded. The concepts of this document will evolve as the testing and evaluation program unfolds.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OS21400
- OSTI ID:
- 10170548
- Report Number(s):
- Y/EN-4325; CNPE/HCT-2; ON: DE92019489
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 16 Mar 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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