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In-plane shear behaviour by diagonal compression testing of brick masonry walls strengthened with basalt and steel textile reinforced mortars
Garcia Ramonda, Larisa; Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro; Camata, Guido (Elsevier, 2020-04)
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Accés obertThis paper presents an experimental study of the structural behaviour of masonry walls retrofitted with Textile Reinforced Mortar (TRM) to improve their in-plane shear strength and deformation capacity. The experimental ... -
Influence of geometry of cylindrical samples in the mechanical characterization of existing brickwork
Segura, Jorge; Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro (Springer, Cham, 2019)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialThe mechanical characterization of masonry is of paramount importance for the structural assess-ment of historical constructions against both vertical and horizontal actions. In particular, the compressive strength of ... -
Influence of recycled limestone filler additions on the mechanical behaviour of commercial premixed hydraulic lime based mortars
Segura Domingo, Jorge; Aponte Hernández, Diego Fernando; Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro (Elsevier, 2020-03)
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Accés obertThis paper presents an experimental programme aimed at investigating the use of limestone filler additions to modify the mechanical properties of commercial premixed hydraulic lime based mortars. The influence of adding ... -
Influence of specimen slenderness and stacking on the experimental strength of solid fired clay bricks
Cabané Cañas, Albert; Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro (2023-11)
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Accés obertThis study evaluates the effect of the specimen’s slenderness and stacking on the experimental measurement of the compressive strength of solid fired clay units. The experimental campaign has focused on two different types ... -
Interpretation of experimental tests on small specimens of historical mortars
Pelà, Luca; Benedetti, Andrea; Marastoni, Diego (2012)
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Investigation on experimental techniques for the mechanical characterization of brick masonry
Roca Fabregat, Pedro; Pelà, Luca (Universidad de Cantabria, 2020)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialOne of the main difficulties found in the assessment and verification of masonry historical structures lays in the characterization of the main mechanical properties of the material components (units and mortar) and masonry ... -
Laboratory and in-situ characterisation of masonry materials in a large historical industrial building in Barcelona
Cabané Cañas, Albert; Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro (International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2021)
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Accés obertThis paper presents an experimental campaign carried out in an historical industrial building of Barcelona from the 19th century, considering in-situ and laboratory minor destructive testing (MDT) techniques. The results ... -
Laboratory and in-situ mechanical characterisation of masonry components by comparing destructive and minor destructive testing techniques
Cabané Cañas, Albert; Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro (2023-12-20)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialThe safeguard of existing masonry buildings requires a meticulous characterisation of the component materials (units and mortar) by using in-situ minimally intrusive techniques. This need is especially prominent in the ... -
L’uso di materiali innovativi nell’adeguamento sismico di strutture in muratura
Benedetti, Andrea; Pelà, Luca (Centro Internazionale di Aggiornamento Sperimentale-Scientifico, 2010)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialLa problematica della sicurezza degli edifici di uso pubblico è diventata oggigiorno un tema cruciale, alla luce delle nuove normative sismiche e dei recenti terremoti avvenuti in Italia. I progettisti sono pertanto chiamati ... -
Machine-learning model for the determination of macro-scale masonry properties based on a virtual laboratory at micro-scale
Kalkbrenner, Philip; Pelà, Luca; Rossi, Riccardo (International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), 2021)
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Accés obertCutting-edge methods in the computational analysis of structures have been developed over the last decades. Such modern tools are helpful to assess the safety of existing buildings. Multi-scale techniques have been proposed ... -
Masonry properties determination via splitting tests on cores with a rotated mortar layer
Benedetti, Andrea; Pelà, Luca; Aprile, Alessandra (I¿stanbul Technical University, 2008)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialThe in situ evaluation of the masonry mechanical properties is a very complicated task. Since in general extracting a significant masonry specimen is not possible at all, alternative methods look for the solution by combining ... -
Measurement of solid brick compressive strength and anisotropy on non-standard small cubic specimens
Cabané Cañas, Albert; Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro (Springer, 2023)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialAn experimental research has been carried out on the possibility of measuring the compressive strength of ceramic solid bricks by testing in laboratory non-standardized cubic samples measuring 40 × 40 × 40 mm3. The viability ... -
Mechanical characterization of historical masonry by core drilling and testing of cylindrical samples
Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro; Benedetti, Andrea (2016-04)
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Accés obertThis paper presents an experimental study aimed at the characterization of the mechanical behaviour of existing masonry. The research proposes a methodology based on the in-situ core drilling of existing masonry members, ... -
Mechanical characterization of historical masonry by means of minor destructive techniques
Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro (Centro Internazionale di Aggiornamento Sperimentale-Scientifico, 2016)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialOne of the main difficulties encountered in the study of existing masonry structures is found in the adequate characterization of the mechanical properties of the material. The typical features of common masonry structural ... -
Micro-scale continuous and discrete numerical models for nonlinear analysis of masonry shear walls
Petracca, Massimo; Pelà, Luca; Rossi, Riccardo; Zaghi, Stefano; Camata, Guido; Spacone, Enrico (2017-09)
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Accés obertA novel damage mechanics-based continuous micro-model for the analysis of masonry-walls is presented and compared with other two well-known discrete micro-models. The discrete micro-models discretize masonry micro-structure ... -
Modelling of in-plane seismic behaviour of one-way steel or timber jack arch floors in existing buildings: application to the Eixample district of Barcelona
Dimovska, Sara; Saloustros, Savvas; Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro (2022-07)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialThe type of floor system has a decisive role in the seismic performance of unreinforced masonry buildings. The in-plane stiffness of the floors has to be adequately represented in the numerical modelling of existing ... -
Monotonic and cyclic testing of clay brick and lime mortar masonry in compression
Segura Domingo, Jorge; Pelà, Luca; Roca Fabregat, Pedro (Elsevier, 2018-12)
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Accés obertThis research presents an experimental programme on the mechanical characterization of masonry under monotonic and cyclic uniaxial compression. Two different types of standard specimens, running bond walls and stack bond ... -
Multi directional pushover analysis of irregular masonry buildings without box behavior
Kalkbrenner, Philip; Pelà, Luca; Sandoval Mandujano, Cristian Eliseo (Elsevier, 2019-12)
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Accés obertThis paper proposes the use of multiple nonlinear static analyses for the seismic assessment of irregular masonry buildings without box behavior. The methodology consists in executing a series of sequential pushover analyses ... -
Multiscale computational first order homogenization of thick shells for the analysis of out-of-plane loaded masonry walls
Petracca, Massimo; Pelà, Luca; Rossi, Riccardo; Oller Martínez, Sergio Horacio; Camata, Guido; Spacone, Enrico (2017-03)
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Accés obertThis work presents a multiscale method based on computational homogenization for the analysis of general heterogeneous thick shell structures, with special focus on periodic brick-masonry walls. The proposed method is ... -
Non linear reticular models for unreinforced and reinforced masonry analyses
Benedetti, Andrea; Pelà, Luca; Ramalho, Marcio (International Masonry Society, 2010)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialAssessing the collapse load for complex masonry structures, such as historic monuments, is a very hard task and looking for a reliable and suitable procedure considering all the available numerical techniques is still ...