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Numerical simulations of retrofitting interventions on timber floors in unreinforced masonry

Unreinforced masonry buildings with flexible timber floors are amongst the most vulnerable building typologies for seismic loading. Though flexible diaphragms play a role in the seismic behaviour of unreinforced masonry buildings, the impact of the connect ...

2022

Seismic vulnerability assessment of “Sion cathedral” (Switzerland): an integrated approach to detect and evaluate local collapse mechanisms in heritage buildings

Pierino Lestuzzi, Yves Sylvain Gilles Reuland, Lorenzo Diana

Seismic assessment of existing heritage buildings remains a challenging task. There is a high level of complexity and uncertainty compared with the assessment of standard buildings. Heritage masonry churches are usually prone to partial collapses during ea ...

2017

Development of a displacement-based design approach for modern mixed RC-URM wall structures

Katrin Beyer, Alessandro Paparo

The recent re-assessment of the seismic hazard in Europe led for many regions of low to moderate seismicity to an increase in the seismic demand. As a consequence, several modern unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings, constructed with reinforced concrete (R ...

Techno-Press2015

On the Use of CFRP Sheets for the Seismic Retrofitting of Masonry Walls and the Influence of Mechanical Anchorage

Pierino Lestuzzi, Patrick Bischof

This work reports the outcomes of an extensive experimental campaign on the retrofitting of masonry walls by means of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) sheets, carried out at University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Fribourg. In the first stage, static-cy ...

Mdpi Ag2014

Fragility Analysis of Existing Unreinforced Masonry Buildings through a Numerical-based Methodology

Pierino Lestuzzi, Amin Karbassi

As an approach to the problem of seismic vulnerability evaluation of existing buildings using the predicted vulnerability method, numerical models can be applied to define fragility curves of typical buildings which represent building classes. These curves ...

2012

New analytical fragility curves for existing URM buildings in regions with moderate seismicity

Pierino Lestuzzi, Marcelo Rafael Oropeza Ancieta

Seismic risk in regions with moderate seismicity, such as Switzerland, was largely underestimated. A vast majority of existing buildings have been built without specific earthquake resistant features and do not meet modern requirements. Although several pr ...

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