Five existing unreinforced masonry buildings, built in different Italian cities in a relatively recent time frame, were selected to study the seismic behaviour of modern existing structures, not designed to withstand seismic actions. The buildings were modelled using an equivalent-frame approach, adopting, and comparing two nonlinear constitutive laws and introducing specific modelling strategies to represent the distinctive features of modern existing URM structures. Nonlinear static analyses were performed to determine capacity and multi-stripe time history analyses to evaluate displacement demand at increasing return periods. Although non-exhaustive, the results show a trend of generally decreasing seismic vulnerability for more recent buildings.

Modelling and Seismic Response Analysis of Existing URM Structures. Part 1: Archetypes of Italian Modern Buildings

Penna A.;Bracchi S.;
2022-01-01

Abstract

Five existing unreinforced masonry buildings, built in different Italian cities in a relatively recent time frame, were selected to study the seismic behaviour of modern existing structures, not designed to withstand seismic actions. The buildings were modelled using an equivalent-frame approach, adopting, and comparing two nonlinear constitutive laws and introducing specific modelling strategies to represent the distinctive features of modern existing URM structures. Nonlinear static analyses were performed to determine capacity and multi-stripe time history analyses to evaluate displacement demand at increasing return periods. Although non-exhaustive, the results show a trend of generally decreasing seismic vulnerability for more recent buildings.
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