التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: |
Active Confinement of Masonry Walls with Stainless Steel Straps: The Effect of Strap Arrangement on the in-Plane Behavior of Strength, Poisson's Ratio, and Pseudo-Ductility. |
المؤلفون: |
Ferretti, Elena |
المصدر: |
Buildings (2075-5309); Dec2023, Vol. 13 Issue 12, p3027, 49p |
مصطلحات موضوعية: |
POISSON'S ratio, MASONRY, WALLS, STEEL walls, MASONRY testing |
مستخلص: |
Among all the active confinement techniques, the use of pre-tensioned stainless steel straps has recently gained much attention. The flexibility of the stainless steel straps allows us to bend and pass them through the thickness of the masonry, thus creating a three-dimensional strengthening system between the two opposite facings. The use of the same perforation for the passage of several straps closed in a loop generates a continuous strengthening system that prevents parts of the structure from falling and injuring the occupants during seismic events. However, the perforations can nullify the in-plane strengthening, as they act as cylindrical hinges and make the reinforcement system labile for certain strap arrangements. Diagonal compression tests on square masonry panels performed in the present study show that the straps improve neither strength nor ductility when running along the mortar head and bed joints, arranged in square meshes. Conversely, they improve both strength and ductility when the straps make angles of ±45° with the mortar joints. Furthermore, the experimental results show that the straps exert an anisotropic effect that decreases the apparent in-plane Poisson ratio. They also provide new insights into the diagonal compression test and allow formulating a new proposal for the pseudo-ductility factor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |