Publications by Panagiotis Mergos

Loading protocols for structures designed for different behaviour factors

All the existing loading protocols have been developed independently of the value of the behaviour factor q that the structure has been designed for. Conservatively, a single loading protocol is adopted, for all q values, based on the structural system wit ...

2015

Sensitivity of drift capacities of URM walls to cumulative damage demands and implications on loading protocols for quasi-static cyclic tests

Katrin Beyer, Panagiotis Mergos

Displacement-based seismic design and assessment procedures require as key input parameter estimates of displacement capacities of the critical elements. The displacement capacities of unreinforced masonry (URM) walls are typically determined by means of q ...

2015

Displacement-based seismic design of symmetric single-storey wood-frame buildings with the aid of the N2 method

Katrin Beyer, Panagiotis Mergos

This paper presents a new methodology for the displacement-based seismic design of symmetric single-storey wood-frame buildings. Previous displacement-based design efforts were based on the direct displacement-based design approach, which uses a substitute ...

2015

Loading protocols for European regions of low to moderate seismicity

Katrin Beyer, Panagiotis Mergos

Existing loading protocols for quasi-static cyclic testing of structures are based on recordings from regions of high seismicity. For regions of low to moderate seismicity they overestimate imposed cumulative damage demands. Since structural capacities are ...

Springer Verlag2014

Modelling shear–flexure interaction in equivalent frame models of slender reinforced concrete walls

Katrin Beyer, Panagiotis Mergos

Quasi-static cyclic tests on reinforced concrete (RC) walls have shown that shear deformations can constitute a significant ratio of the total deformations when the wall is loaded beyond the elastic regime. For slender RC walls that form a stable flexural ...

2014