Lateral Load on Site Testing of a Two Story Masonry Building up to Near Collapse

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2015-11-06

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Binici, Barış
Canbay, Erdem
Yakut, Ahmet

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Masonry structures constitute a significant portion of the building stock in many countries with high seismic regions. Understanding the load carrying mechanisms of such buildings as a system and estimating the deformation capacities still remains as an important task for seismic assessment and retrofit. In this research, one-way cyclic test of an existing masonry building was performed to determine its lateral load resisting behaviour. The test building was sliced approximately in the middle and one side was strengthened with the objective of obtaining a strong reaction wall. The other side of the structure was taken as the test structure with a floor plan of approximately 10 m x 8 m. Hydraulic actuators located in the two stories were employed to impose one-way cyclic displacement excursions. The structure was tested up to a lateral strength drop of approximately twenty percent from its ultimate load, which occurred at a drift ratio of about 1%. The failure of the walls in the building, which were mostly diagonal tension, was concentrated on the first story. Results provide important data on the performance of an actual masonry building and were employed for the applicability of various stiffness and strength models in the literature.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/74248

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Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering

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B. Binici, E. Canbay, and A. Yakut, “Lateral Load on Site Testing of a Two Story Masonry Building up to Near Collapse,” presented at the Proceedings of the Tenth Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/74248.