TY  - CHAP
A1  - Morandi, Paolo
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Breis, Khaled
A1  - Beyer, Katrin
A1  - Magenes, Guido
ED  - Arion, Christian
ED  - Scupin, Alexandra
ED  - Ţigănescu, Alexandru
T1  - Behaviour factor q for the seismic design of URM buildings
T2  - The Third European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology September 4 – September 9, 2022, Bucharest
N2  - Recent earthquakes showed that low-rise URM buildings following codecompliant seismic design and details behaved in general very well without substantial damages. Although advances in simulation tools make nonlinear calculation methods more readily accessible to designers, linear analyses will still be the standard design method for years to come. The present paper aims to improve the linear seismic design method by providing a proper definition of the q-factor of URM buildings. Values of q-factors are derived for low-rise URM buildings with rigid diaphragms, with reference to modern structural configurations realized in low to moderate seismic areas of Italy and Germany. The behaviour factor components for deformation and energy dissipation capacity and for overstrength due to the redistribution of forces are derived by means of pushover analyses. As a result of the investigations, rationally based values of the behaviour factor q to be used in linear analyses in the range of 2.0 to 3.0 are proposed.
KW  - unreinforced masonry buildings
KW  - modern constructions
KW  - seismic design
KW  - linear elastic analysis;
KW  - behaviour factor q
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 978-973-100-533-1
SP  - 1184
EP  - 1194
ER  -