TY - JOUR
T1 - A method for the analysis and classification of historic masonry
AU - Borri, Antonio
AU - Corradi, Marco
AU - Castori, Giulio
AU - De Maria, Alessandro
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank professors Luigia Binda, Francesco Doglioni and Giulio Mirabella for contributing to the development of the analysis method, and also technicians of the Region of Umbria (Italy) for advise. Authors gratefully acknowledge that this work was partially supported by a ReLUIS grant of Italian Ministry for Research and Education (agreement between Dipartimento della Protezione Civile and ReLUIS dated 27 December 2013, Research topic: Masonry structures).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2015/9/29
Y1 - 2015/9/29
N2 - It is known that the mechanical behavior of masonry material depends on many factors, such as compressive or shear strength of components (mortar and blocks), blocks shape, volumetric ratio between components and wall texture, that is the result of applying a series of construction devices which form the “rule of the art”. Taking into account the complexity of the problem due to the great number of variables, a fair assessment of the load carrying capacity of masonries can be made only with in situ test. Being in situ test a semi-destructive methods, not always viable, a numerical estimate of the mechanical parameters of the walls can be made on the basis of a qualitative criteria evaluation. The method here proposed, called Masonry Quality Index method, consists in evaluating the presence, the partial presence, or the absence of certain parameters that define the “rule of the art”, namely a set of construction devices that, if executed during the construction of a wall, provides a good behavior and ensure the compactness and the monolithicity.
AB - It is known that the mechanical behavior of masonry material depends on many factors, such as compressive or shear strength of components (mortar and blocks), blocks shape, volumetric ratio between components and wall texture, that is the result of applying a series of construction devices which form the “rule of the art”. Taking into account the complexity of the problem due to the great number of variables, a fair assessment of the load carrying capacity of masonries can be made only with in situ test. Being in situ test a semi-destructive methods, not always viable, a numerical estimate of the mechanical parameters of the walls can be made on the basis of a qualitative criteria evaluation. The method here proposed, called Masonry Quality Index method, consists in evaluating the presence, the partial presence, or the absence of certain parameters that define the “rule of the art”, namely a set of construction devices that, if executed during the construction of a wall, provides a good behavior and ensure the compactness and the monolithicity.
KW - Historic masonry
KW - In-site testing
KW - Mechanical properties
KW - Seismic vulnerability
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U2 - 10.1007/s10518-015-9731-4
DO - 10.1007/s10518-015-9731-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84938291630
VL - 13
SP - 2647
EP - 2665
JO - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
JF - Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering
SN - 1570-761X
IS - 9
ER -