Performance of Unreinforced Masonry Walls under Seismic Loads
Event details
Date | 24.05.2017 |
Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
Speaker | Prof. Dr Michael Griffith, School of Civil, Envirnmental and Mining Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Unreinforced masonry buildings are very vulnerable to earthquake loading. Such buildings can fail due to in-plane or out-of-plane failure modes. Professor Griffith’s research group is a leading group in the field of the seismic response of masonry buildings in general and the development of out-of-plane assessment methods in particular. He will give a brief overview of Adelaide University’s Structural Engineering Research Group and their research interests at the University of Adelaide before highlighting recent and ongoing research into the seismic behaviour of unreinforced masonry (URM) construction. His talk will focus primarily on:
- the seismic vulnerability of URM to out-of-plane bending and the associated local failure mechanisms;
- feasibility of near surface mounted FRP strips for seismic retrofit of URM walls;
- preliminary results of recent in-situ testing of clay brick cavity walls in ‘1960s constructed’ Adelaide houses which are being demolished for road widening projects; and
- influence of flexible floor and roof diaphrams on the seismic response of URM buildings.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Dr Brice Lecampion & Prof. Dr Katrin Beyer
Contact
- Prof. Dr Katrin Beyer