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Numerical Modeling of Masonry Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings

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Equivalent strut model; Finite element model; Infilled frame; Masonry; Nonlinear analysis; Reinforced concrete; Creep

Introduction

Masonry-infilled reinforced concrete frames constitute a significant portion of the building inventory in seismically active regions around the world. Even though early efforts to analyze the behavior of infilled frames (e.g., Polyakov 1960) date back to more than half a century ago, the modeling of the interaction between the frame members and the masonry infill walls is still an active research area.

It is well known that the resistance of an infilled frame is not a simple sum of the resistance of a bare frame and that of the infill wall due to the fact that the load-resistance mechanism of a frame can change as a result of its interaction with the infill. As described in ASCE/SEI 41 (ASCE/SEI 2007) and shown in Fig. 1, when the system is subjected to a horizontal force acting toward the right, the frame tends to separate from the infill wall at...

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  1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 200 Patton Hall, 24061, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Ioannis Koutromanos

  2. Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0085, La Jolla, CA, 92093-0085, USA

    P. Benson Shing

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  1. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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  2. Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Koutromanos, I., Shing, P.B. (2013). Numerical Modeling of Masonry Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frame Buildings. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I., Patelli, E., Au, IK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_123-1

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