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RISPerformance and Seismic Vulnerability of Masonry Housing Types Used in Chile
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Masonry is the most used construction material, especially for residential dwellings built in all regions of Chile, up to four stories high. The masonry wall’s reinforcement of these buildings can be classified into three ...
Material Parameter Identification in Distributed Plasticity FE Models of Frame-Type Structures Using Nonlinear Stochastic Filtering
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This paper proposes a novel framework that combines high-fidelity mechanics-based nonlinear (hysteretic) finite-element (FE) models and a nonlinear stochastic filtering technique, referred to as the unscented Kalman filter, ...
Pretest Nonlinear Finite-Element Modeling and Response Simulation of a Full-Scale 5-Story Reinforced Concrete Building Tested on the NEES-UCSD Shake Table
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: A full-scale five-story reinforced concrete building specimen, outfitted with a variety of nonstructural components and systems (NCSs), was built and tested on the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation at the ...
Establishing <i>R<sub>w</sub></i> and <i>C<sub>d</sub></i> Factors for Confined Masonry Buildings
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: Seismic design provisions, including the Chilean seismic code, prescribe seismic design forces by reducing a linear elastic response spectra using a response modification factor. The codes also estimate expected maximum ...
Information-Theoretic Approach for Identifiability Assessment of Nonlinear Structural Finite-Element Models
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
Abstract: This paper presents an information-theoretic approach for identifiability assessment of model parameters in nonlinear finite-element (FE) model updating problems. Rooted in the Bayesian inference method, the proposed ...