Collapse of a masonry wall in an industrial building: Diagnosis by numerical modeling

Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-76

  José Del Coz Díaz, Juan ^a   Adam, Jose M ^b   Martínez Luengas, Alfonso Lozano ^c   Alvarez Rabanal, Felipe Pedro ^c  

^a Edificio Dep Viesques 7   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fluid structure interactions; Masonry; Numerical analysis; Structural failures; Wind forces

Indexed keywords

BUILDING PRACTICES; FIELD SURVEYS; FLUID-STRUCTURES; INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS; MASONRY; MASONRY WALLS; PARAMETRIC STUDY; PRINCIPAL VARIABLES; STRUCTURAL FAILURE; WALL BEHAVIOR; WIND FORCES; WIND LOAD;

CONCRETE BLOCKS; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODELS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; PRECAST CONCRETE; RETAINING WALLS;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 84873368486     PISSN: 08873828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)CF.1943-5509.0000310     Document Type: Article

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