Comparison of structural response of unreinforced masonry building using artificial, recorded, and synthetic ground motions : Liège as case study

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Supervisors

Saraiva Esteves Pacheco De Almeida, João ; Kris Vanneste

Faculty

Ecole polytechnique de Louvain

Degree label

Master [120] : ingénieur civil des constructions, à finalité spécialisée

Abstract

In this work, there are two main purposes. first, have a good perception of three different types of accelerograms (Recorded, Artificial, and synthetic). And the second, have a seismic assessment with them for an unreinforced masonry building in the city of Liège. Therefore, it needs to review the literature to know three types of accelerograms better. And also, it is necessary to find their available software in order to select or produce the accelerograms. To generate the synthetic accelerograms for the city of Liège, I visited the Royal Observatory of Belgium and had access to its database. After getting enough information about accelerograms, the masonry building is described and the modeled building in Tremuri software is used to run nonlinear dynamic analysis. Then, the results from Tremuri software using three types of accelerograms is shown. So that, comparison of results has been done with some conclusions. As the Tremuri model from M.r Pirmez used, a brief comparison between nonlinear static analysis (push-over analysis - his results) and nonlinear dynamic analysis (my results) is done.