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Risque sismique
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Seismic assessment of a historical masonry building in Switzerland: the “Ancien Hôpital de Sion”
Pierino Lestuzzi, Angelo Garofano
The paper presents the results of the evaluation of the seismic safety of the Ancien Hôpital de Sion, an important Swiss architectural heritage building, sited in the Canton of Valais, the region with the highest seismic hazard in Switzerland. Three-dimens ...
Taylor & Francis Inc2016Multi-Directional Structural Component Hybrid Testing System for the Assessment of the Seismic Response of Steel I-Shaped Columns
Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady, Ali Imanpour
The Multi-Directional Hybrid Testing System (MDHTS) at Polytechnique Montreal is an advanced structural testing system that can be used to study the response of large-scale structural components such as columns, walls, or bridge piers subjected to any comb ...
2016Assessment of Numerical and Experimental Errors in Hybrid Simulation of Framed Structural Systems through Collapse
Hybrid simulation can provide significant advantages for large-scale experimental investigations of the seismic response of structures through collapse, particularly when considering cost and safety of conventional shake table tests. Hybrid simulation, how ...
Taylor & Francis2016Fluid injection in a frictional weakening fracture
Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Federico Ciardo
Understanding the mechanism of nucleation of dynamic rupture is an important issue in seismology since it is the key factor in determining the seismic potential of pre-existing faults under long-term loadings. Furthermore, the activation of Mode II crack b ...
2016Modelling of fluid injection into a frictional weakening dilatant fault
Brice Tanguy Alphonse Lecampion, Federico Ciardo
Understanding the mechanism of nucleation of dynamic rupture is an important issue in seismology. It is the key factor in determining the seismic potential of pre-existing faults under long-term loadings. Furthermore, the activation of Mode II fracture by ...
2016Evaluation of seismic assessment procedures for determining deformation demands in RC wall buildings
This work evaluates the performance of a number of seismic assessment procedures when applied to a case study reinforced concrete (RC) wall building. The performance of each procedure is evaluated through its ability to accurately predict deformation deman ...
Techno-Press2015Development of a displacement-based design approach for modern mixed RC-URM wall structures
Katrin Beyer, Alessandro Paparo
The recent re-assessment of the seismic hazard in Europe led for many regions of low to moderate seismicity to an increase in the seismic demand. As a consequence, several modern unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings, constructed with reinforced concrete (R ...
Techno-Press2015Modelling the seismic response of modern URM buildings retrofitted by adding RC walls
Katrin Beyer, Alessandro Paparo
Modern unreinforced masonry buildings with reinforced concrete slabs are often retrofitted by inserting reinforced concrete walls. The main advantages of this technique are the increase in strength and displacement capacity with respect to masonry structur ...
Taylor & Francis2015In-plane cyclic behaviour of unfired clay and earth brick walls in both unstrengthened and strengthened conditions
This article presents the outcome of a series of in-plane shear tests on non-traditional masonry walls under unstrengthened and strengthened conditions. The uniqueness of the experiments arises from the testing of unfired clay and earth (adobe) bricks, whi ...
Springer Verlag2015Seismic response of core walls – open questions after the earthquakes in Chile and New Zealand
Recent earthquakes in Chile (2010, M 8.8) and New Zealand (2011, M 6.3) have shown that, despite many years of extensive research and subsequent design code advancements, several modern reinforced concrete walls underperformed or even failed during these s ...
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