TY  - GEN
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Gellert, Christoph
A1  - Reindl, Lukas
A1  - Meskouris, Konstantin
T1  - A nonlinear method for the seismic safety verification of masonry buildings
N2  - In order for traditional masonry to stay a competitive building material in seismically active regions there is an urgent demand for modern, deformation-based verification procedures which exploit the nonlinear load bearing reserves. The Capacity Spectrum Method (CSM) is a widely accepted design approach in the field of reinforced concrete and steel construction. It compares the seismic action with the load-bearing capacity of the building considering nonlinear material behavior with its post-peak capacity. The bearing capacity of the building is calculated iteratively using single wall capacity curves. This paper presents a new approach for the bilinear approximation of single wall capacity curves in the style of EC6/EC8 respectively FEMA 306/FEMA 356 based on recent shear wall test results of the European Collective-Research Project “ESECMaSE”. The application of the CSM to masonry structures by using bilinear approximations of capacity curves as input is demonstrated on the example of a typical German residential home.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.fh-aachen.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/10440
N1  - COMPDYN 2009 - 2nd International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics & Earthquake Engineering. Isles of Rhodes, Greece, June 22-24,2009.
PB  - National Technical University of Athens
CY  - Athen
ER  -