Development of design software for plain masonry buildings

• Author(s): Marques, Rui Filipe Pedreira ; Gouveia, João P. ; Lourenço, Paulo B. ; Leão, C.
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/17568
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Plain masonry; Design; Software; Benchmarking; Software development; Case study
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Paper 144 As result of a benchmarking process on foreign computer codes for design of masonry buildings, the guidelines for the development of a Portuguese design software for plain masonry buildings are presented. The related software was inspired on Italian methods, particularly the RAN, and allows to perform a global response analysis of buildings, based on the assumption of a cumulative response of storeys and walls. Besides the assumptions of behaviour and equilibrium, modelling of stiffness and collapse mechanisms, the main features of the formulation adopted are presented. As a form of validation a case study is presented.