Shaking Table Tests on 1/2 Scale One Story Masonry Structure
Marco Di Ludovico1, Alberto Balsamo2, Gennaro Maddaloni2, Nunzia Iuliano2, Giuseppe Maddaloni3, 4, Andrea Prota2, Gaetano Manfredi2
1 Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples (Italy).
diludovi@unina.it
2 Department of Structures for Engineering and Architecture, Via Claudio 21, 80125 Naples (Italy).
albalsam@unina.it
gennaro.maddaloni@unina.it
nunzia.iuliano@gmail.com
aprota@unina.it
gamanfre@unina.it
3 Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, Piazza Roma, 21, Benevento (Italy)
4 Construction Technologies Institute, National Research Council (CNR), San Giuliano Milanese, Milan, (Italy).
giuseppe.maddaloni@unisannio.it
Abstract. A study on the dynamic response of one-story building, made by yellow regular Neapolitan blocks and mortar with poor mechanical properties in a traditional texture of existing masonry structures is herein illustrated. The seismic response of the masonry building has been investigated by means of shake-table tests on 1/2-scale model. Seismic inputs of recent earthquakes Italy (e.g. L’Aquila 2009, Amatrice 2016) were used in order to investigate the seismic behavior of the sample. The paper reports the main aspects related to the specimen design procedure, the experimental test setup, experimental outcomes, crack patterns and failure mechanism of the as-built specimen.
Keywords: Shaking-table testing, masonry building, large-scale specimen, seismic performance.
