Influence of transverse loading on the stability of slender unreinforced masonry walls

Engineering Structures

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2830-2839

  Bean Popehn, Jennifer R ^a   Schultz, Arturo E ^b   Lu, Mu ^c   Stolarski, Henryk K ^b   Ojard, Nels J ^d  

^a OPUS Architects and Engineers   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^d Krech Ojard and Assoc PA   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckling; Eccentricity; Lateral load; Masonry walls; Out of plane bending; Slenderness ratio

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BENDING STRENGTH; BUCKLING; DATA COMPRESSION; FOUNDATIONS; FUNCTIONS; MASONRY MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOLUTIONS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BUCKLING BEHAVIORS; BUCKLING STRENGTH; CRITICAL LOADS; ECCENTRICITY; ELASTIC BUCKLING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM; FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; GEOMETRIC NONLINEAR ANALYSIS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; LATERAL LOAD; LATERAL LOADS; LOAD ECCENTRICITY; MASONRY WALLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; OUT-OF PLANE; OUT-OF-PLANE BENDING; POST-BUCKLING BEHAVIORS; RESTRAINT CONDITIONS; SLENDERNESS RATIO; TEST DATA; TRANSVERSE LOADING; UNREINFORCED MASONRY WALLS; URM WALLS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BUCKLING; ECCENTRICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADING; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 53049091832     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2008.02.016     Document Type: Article

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