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Response of arching unreinforced concrete masonry walls to blast loading / Badr M. Abou-Zeid in Journal of structural engineering, Vol. 137 N° 10 (Octobre 2011) 

Public ISBD [article]  in Journal of structural engineering > Vol. 137 N° 10 (Octobre 2011) . - pp. 1205-1214 Titre : Response of arching unreinforced concrete masonry walls to blast loading Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Badr M. Abou-Zeid, Auteur ; El-Dakhakhni, Wael W., Auteur ; A. Ghani Razaqpur, Auteur Année de publication : 2012 Article en page(s) : pp. 1205-1214 Note générale : Génie Civil Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Arching  action  Blast  loads  Concrete  masonry  Experimental  results  Out-of-plane  capacity  Retrofit  methods  System  identification Index. décimale : 624 Constructions du génie civil et du bâtiment. Infrastructures. Ouvrages en terres. Fondations. Tunnels. Ponts et charpentes Résumé : New standards for blast protection of buildings are currently being developed in the United States and Canada. In this regard, both standards are considering unreinforced masonry (URM) walls as particularly vulnerable to blast events and may not be used in blast-resisting structural systems. In this paper, the effectiveness of enforcing arching action as a cost-effective hardening technique for vertically spanning one-way URM walls under blast loads is investigated. A total of eight full-scale concrete-block URM walls were subjected to blast loads generated by high explosives. Enforcing URM walls arching between rigid supports significantly enhanced their out-of-plane blast resistance compared to similar nonarching (flexural) URM walls. Moreover, no fragments or debris were observed on the leeward side of the arching walls, indicating the potential of the proposed hardening technique in reducing the hazard level on the occupants of buildings with exterior URM walls. The improved performance is attributed to the formation of hinges at the walls’ supports and midheights. This three-hinged arch mechanism allowed the walls to develop large in-plane compressive forces, which subsequently increased their out-of-plane resistances and prevented flying debris due to increased friction forces between the masonry courses. Comparing the observed strength of the arched walls to their strength predicted by existing models showed a significant underestimation of the actual wall strengths. The results of the study clearly demonstrate that, with minimal structural intervention, URM walls can significantly improve the building envelope performance and contribute to the structural resistance of blast loads. DEWEY : 624.17 ISSN : 0733-9445 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/sto/resource/1/jsendh/v137/i10/p1205_s1?isAuthorized=no [article] Response of arching unreinforced concrete masonry walls to blast loading [texte imprimé] / Badr M. Abou-Zeid, Auteur ; El-Dakhakhni, Wael W., Auteur ; A. Ghani Razaqpur, Auteur . - 2012 . - pp. 1205-1214. Génie Civil Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of structural engineering > Vol. 137 N° 10 (Octobre 2011) . - pp. 1205-1214 Mots-clés : Arching  action  Blast  loads  Concrete  masonry  Experimental  results  Out-of-plane  capacity  Retrofit  methods  System  identification Index. décimale : 624 Constructions du génie civil et du bâtiment. Infrastructures. Ouvrages en terres. Fondations. Tunnels. Ponts et charpentes Résumé : New standards for blast protection of buildings are currently being developed in the United States and Canada. In this regard, both standards are considering unreinforced masonry (URM) walls as particularly vulnerable to blast events and may not be used in blast-resisting structural systems. In this paper, the effectiveness of enforcing arching action as a cost-effective hardening technique for vertically spanning one-way URM walls under blast loads is investigated. A total of eight full-scale concrete-block URM walls were subjected to blast loads generated by high explosives. Enforcing URM walls arching between rigid supports significantly enhanced their out-of-plane blast resistance compared to similar nonarching (flexural) URM walls. Moreover, no fragments or debris were observed on the leeward side of the arching walls, indicating the potential of the proposed hardening technique in reducing the hazard level on the occupants of buildings with exterior URM walls. The improved performance is attributed to the formation of hinges at the walls’ supports and midheights. This three-hinged arch mechanism allowed the walls to develop large in-plane compressive forces, which subsequently increased their out-of-plane resistances and prevented flying debris due to increased friction forces between the masonry courses. Comparing the observed strength of the arched walls to their strength predicted by existing models showed a significant underestimation of the actual wall strengths. The results of the study clearly demonstrate that, with minimal structural intervention, URM walls can significantly improve the building envelope performance and contribute to the structural resistance of blast loads. DEWEY : 624.17 ISSN : 0733-9445 En ligne : http://ascelibrary.org/sto/resource/1/jsendh/v137/i10/p1205_s1?isAuthorized=no