Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP0450933
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Displacement-based earthquake design of unreinforced masonry walls in two-way bending. Current design of unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings for earthquake loading is based on checking that the strength of walls and connections exceeds the earthquake-induced inertia forces. Conservative estimates of wall bending strength are used to account for the wide variability in the quality of masonry construction. This project proposes to develop a new "displacement-based" design methodology for URM walls which is less conservative and more direct, reliable and easier to apply the the force-based method. Hence, this method offers substantical cost savings over current techniques for the assessment of the seismic vulnerability of URM walls in buildings.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 2004
End Date: 12-2006
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $185,734.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Civil Engineering | Structural Engineering |
