Seismic Behaviour of Masonry Vault-Slab Structures

Journal Article · Tue Jul 08 00:00:00 EDT 2008 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2963776· OSTI ID:21148922

Chesi, Claudio ^[1]; Butti, Ferdinando ^[2]; Ferrari, Marco

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1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale, Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo Da Vinci, 32 - 20133 Milano (Italy)
2. Universita degli Studi di Brescia-Brescia (Italy)

Spandrel walls typically play a structural role in masonry buildings, transferring load from a slab to the supporting vault. Some indications are given in the literature on the behaviour of spandrels under the effect of vertical loads, but little attention is given to the effect coming from lateral forces acting on the building. An opportunity to investigate this problem has come from the need of analyzing a monumental building which was damaged by the Nov. 24, 2004 Val Sabbia earthquake in the north of Italy. The finite element model set up for the analysis of the vault-spandrel-slab system is presented and the structural role resulting for the spandrels is discussed.

• OSTI ID: 21148922
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1020, Issue 1; Conference: 2008 seismic engineering conference: Commemorating the 1908 Messina and Reggio Calabria earthquake, Reggio Calabria (Italy), 8-11 Jul 2008; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2963776; (c) 2008 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

58 GEOSCIENCES
BUILDINGS
EARTHQUAKES
ENGINEERING
FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
ITALY
SEISMOLOGY
SLABS
WALLS