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Shake-Table Testing and Performance Assessment of a Partially Grouted Reinforced Masonry Building

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This paper presents a study on the seismic performance of partially grouted reinforced masonry buildings. Shake-table tests were conducted on a full-scale, one-story building that had ordinary partially grouted masonry shear walls. The building was designed according to the current practice and code provisions in the U.S. for areas of low to moderate seismicity. For the tests, a sequence of earthquake ground motions of increasing intensity was applied. The structure developed adequate base shear capacity and was able to resist ground motions with intensities twice the maximum considered earthquake without failures. However, it eventually failed in a brittle manner. To quantify the contribution of each shear wall to the overall lateral load capacity of the building, a nonlinear finite-element model was developed and calibrated with the experimental data obtained from the shake-table tests. The experimental and numerical results suggest that the shear strength equation of the current design code predicts reasonably well the base shear capacity of the building specimen.

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    Andreas Koutras & P. Benson Shing

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  1. Department of Structural Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

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  2. Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Universidad de los Andes, Las Condes, RM - Santiago, Chile

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  3. Department of Structural Engineering, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

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Koutras, A., Benson Shing, P. (2018). Shake-Table Testing and Performance Assessment of a Partially Grouted Reinforced Masonry Building. In: Conte, J., Astroza, R., Benzoni, G., Feltrin, G., Loh, K., Moaveni, B. (eds) Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Structures. EVACES 2017. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering , vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67443-8_41

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