Among the factors which are peculiar to ancient masonry structures, creep and the creep-fatigue interaction have been shown to influence strongly their mechanical behaviour and continuous damage appearing to be caused by longterm heavy loads. The problem of achieving a reliable lifetime estimate of historic masonry due to the effects of persistent loading has been dealt with by a probabilistic approach. The results of pseudo-creep tests carried out on ancient masonry of different ages is presented and their interpretation by means of a probabilistic model proposed. This is aimed at the individuation of an aleatory variable as a significant index of vulnerability, and to the solution of the classic problem of reliability in stochastic conditions.

Time Dependent Behaviour of Historic Masonry: a Probabilistic Model

ANZANI, ANNA;GARAVAGLIA, ELSA;BINDA, LUIGIA
2006-01-01

Abstract

Among the factors which are peculiar to ancient masonry structures, creep and the creep-fatigue interaction have been shown to influence strongly their mechanical behaviour and continuous damage appearing to be caused by longterm heavy loads. The problem of achieving a reliable lifetime estimate of historic masonry due to the effects of persistent loading has been dealt with by a probabilistic approach. The results of pseudo-creep tests carried out on ancient masonry of different ages is presented and their interpretation by means of a probabilistic model proposed. This is aimed at the individuation of an aleatory variable as a significant index of vulnerability, and to the solution of the classic problem of reliability in stochastic conditions.
2006
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