TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rosin, Julia
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Cacciatore, Pamela
A1  - Boesen, Niklas
T1  - Investigation of the seismic performance of modern masonry buildings during the Emilia Romagna  earthquake  series
T1  - Untersuchungen des seismischen Verhaltens von  modernen Mauerwerksbauten während der  Erdbebenserie in der Emilia Romagna
JF  - Mauerwerk
N2  - The article presents the investigation of the seismic behaviour of a modern URM building located in the municipality of Finale Emilia in province of Modena, Northern Italy. The building is situated in the centre of the series of the 2012 Northern Italy earthquakes and has not suffered any damage during the earthquake series in 2012. The observed earthquake resistance of the building is compared with predicted resistances based on linear and nonlinear design approaches according to Eurocode. Furthermore, probabilistic analyses based on nonlinear calculation models taking into account scattering of the most relevant input parameters are carried out to identify their influence to the results and to derive fragility curves.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dama.201800013
SN  - 1437-1022
VL  - 22
IS  - 4
SP  - 238
EP  - 250
PB  - Ernst & Sohn
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Butenweg, Christoph
A1  - Rosin, Julia
A1  - Holler, Stefan
T1  - Analysis of cylindrical granular material silos under seismic excitation
JF  - Buildings
N2  - Silos generally work as storage structures between supply and demand for various goods, and their structural safety has long been of interest to the civil engineering profession. This is especially true for dynamically loaded silos, e.g., in case of seismic excitation. Particularly thin-walled cylindrical silos are highly vulnerable to seismic induced pressures, which can cause critical buckling phenomena of the silo shell. The analysis of silos can be carried out in two different ways. In the first, the seismic loading is modeled through statically equivalent loads acting on the shell. Alternatively, a time history analysis might be carried out, in which nonlinear phenomena due to the filling as well as the interaction between the shell and the granular material are taken into account. The paper presents a comparison of these approaches. The model used for the nonlinear time history analysis considers the granular material by means of the intergranular strain approach for hypoplasticity theory. The interaction effects between the granular material and the shell is represented by contact elements. Additionally, soil–structure interaction effects are taken into account.
KW  - granular silo
KW  - earthquake engineering
KW  - hypoplasticity
KW  - nonlinear transient analyses
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings7030061
SN  - 2075-5309
VL  - 7
IS  - 3
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -