Structural analysis

[2014] VERIFICATION OF MASONRY PROPERTIES IN AEM ANALYSIS FOR BRICK INFILLED REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES

Arifa I. ZERIN¹, Hamed SALEM², Akira HOSODA³, Khan M. AMANAT⁴ (1.Yokohama National University, Infrastructure management 2.Cairo UniversityStructural Engineering Department 3.横浜国立大学 Faculty of Urban Innovation 4.Bangladesh University of Engineering and TechnologyDepartment of Civil Engineering)

Keywords:Applied Element Method (AEM), brick infill wall, masonry prisms, れんが積み, 応用要素法, 組積壁

The present study focuses on the verification of masonry constituent properties for analytical investigation of the in-plane cyclic behavior of brick infilled RC frames in AEM. The material properties were established and validated for bricks and mortars under restraining influence within masonry prisms. Consequently, the verified constituent properties were exploited to analyze single-story single-bay half-scaled bare and brick infilled RC frame models under in-plane increasing reverse cyclic load which showed substantially good agreement with the corresponding test results.