Comparative seismic vulnerability analysis on ten masonry towers in the coastal Po Valley in Italy

Engineering Structures

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 465-490

  Casolo, Siro ^a   Milani, Gabriele ^a   Uva, Giuseppina ^b   Alessandri, Claudio ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Masonry towers; Meso scale approach; Non linear dynamic analysis; RBSM model

Indexed keywords

2-D MODEL; ACCELEROGRAMS; BASE SHEAR; COLLAPSE MECHANISM; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; DISCRETIZATIONS; FORCE-DISPLACEMENT; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; GEOMETRICAL DATA; MASONRY TOWERS; MESOSCALE; NON-LINEAR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; PERIMETER WALLS; PO VALLEY; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; QUADRILATERAL ELEMENTS; RIGID BODY; SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR; SEISMIC EXCITATIONS; SEISMIC VULNERABILITY; SPRING MODEL; STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; TECHNICAL LITERATURE;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; GEOMETRY; MASONRY MATERIALS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SEISMOLOGY;

TOWERS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MASONRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC RESPONSE; SEISMICITY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

ITALY; PO VALLEY;

EID: 84871939902     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2012.11.033     Document Type: Article

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