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- Title
- Computational Strategies for Frames with Infill Walls: Discrete and Smeared Crack Analyses and Seismic Fragility.
- File
- PB98153414.pdf
- Author(s)
- Mosalam, K. M.; White, R. N.; Gergely, P.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., December 31, 1997, 188 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- NCEER-97-0021
- Abstract
- Several computational strategies for masonry structures, and particularly for frames with masonry infills, are presented. Three levels of details for the computational models with explored: Micro-modeling of masonry is presented first where the mortar joints were modeled using interface elements. These models may be considered of an intermediate level of detail (meso-modeling) where damage mechanisms are accounted for in the form of smeared cracking using homogeneous properties for masonry; and (maco-modeling) is special for masonry infill walls where equivalent nonlinear truss elements are used to replace the effect of the walls on the bounding frames.
- Keywords
- ; Masonry; Cracking (Fracturing); Seismic design; Mathematical models; Walls; Concrete blocks; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Finite element analysis