Seismic behaviour of a r/c wall: Numerical simulationand experimental validation

• Rui Faria ^[1] ; Nelson Vila Pouca ^[1] ; Raimundo Delgado ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidade Do Porto

     Universidade Do Porto

     Santo Ildefonso, Portugal

     
• Localización: Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería: [Comunicaciones presentadas al IV Congreso de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería celebrado en Sevilla durante los días 7-10 de Junio de 1999] / R. Abascal (ed. lit.), José Domínguez Abascal (ed. lit.), G. Bugeda (ed. lit.), 1999, ISBN 84-89925-45-3
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper describes the numerical simulation of a six floor reinforced concretebuilding, experimentally tested on a shaking table. In the context of an internationalbenchmark each wall of the building was submitted to three consecutive earthquakes, withincreasing intensities. Concrete is discretised with 2D finite elements, and its behaviour isreproduced by a constitutive model with two scalar damage variables. Steel rebars arerepresented by 2-noded truss elements, and its cyclic behaviour reproduced by theGiuffré-Menegotto-Pinto model. Main results and strategies for simulating the benchmarkare presented, with emphasis on the comparison between the numerical and the experimentalresults.