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- Title
Numerical insights on the seismic behavior of a non-isolated historical masonry tower.
- Authors
Castellazzi, Giovanni; D’Altri, Antonio Maria; de Miranda, Stefano; Chiozzi, Andrea; Tralli, Antonio
- Abstract
In this paper, numerical insights on the seismic behavior of a non-isolated historical masonry tower are presented and discussed. The tower under study is the main tower of the fortress of San Felice sul Panaro, a town located near the city of Modena (Italy). Such a tower is surrounded by adjacent structural elements and, therefore, is not isolated. This historical monument has been hit by the devastating seismic sequence occurred in May 2012 in the Northern part of the Emilia region (the so-called 'Emilia earthquake'), showing a huge and widespread damage. Here, in order to understand the behavior of the structure, its interaction with the adjacent buildings and the reasons of the occurred damage, advanced numerical analyses (both nonlinear static and dynamic) are performed on a 3D finite element model with different levels of constraint supplied by the adjacent structural elements and a detailed comparison between the simulated damage and the actual one is carried out. The results of the conducted numerical campaign show a good agreement with the actual crack pattern, particularly for the model of the tower that considers the adjacent structural elements.
- Subjects
ITALY; SEISMIC response; EARTHQUAKE resistant design; MASONRY; TOWER design &; construction; TOWERS; STRUCTURAL analysis (Engineering)
- Publication
Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2018, Vol 16, Issue 2, p933
- ISSN
1570-761X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10518-017-0231-6