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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Seismic Damage Analysis and Design of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings
Abstract
dc:descriptionA model for evaluating the structural damage to masonry buildings subjected to earthquake ground motion is proposed. Damage is expressed as a combination of the effects of excessive deformation and repeated loadings. Model parameters for unreinforced brick masonry were obtained from cyclic load tests of masonry wall specimens. A random vibration method using a nonlinear hysteretic restoring force model to describe the load-deformation behavior of masonry was adopted to evaluate the response statistics required for damage assessment. The proposed damage model was calibrated using observed damages to masonry buildings during past earthquakes.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Civil Engineering
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Kwok, Yan Hoe
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8721683
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69966