Unreinforced masonry hollow concrete blocks#

General description#

Concrete blocks Description: Blocks produced with concrete usually formed in a shape of rectangular prism. The holes can be seen from above after the brick has been laid. Masonry walls built with this material are usually mortared.

GEM taxonomy: MUR+CBH/LWAL+DNO/H1:5

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Capacity parameters#

Building class

Yield drift [%]

Ultimate drift [%]

Ty [s]=f(Height [m])

Yield period [s]

MUR+CBH/LWAL+DNO/H1

0.18

1.0

0.0651*H^0.87

0.15944410822503702

MUR+CBH/LWAL+DNO/H2

0.18

1.0

0.0651*H^0.87

0.29141008129963814

MUR+CBH/LWAL+DNO/H3

0.18

1.0

0.0651*H^0.87

0.4146712896752469

MUR+CBH/LWAL+DNO/H4

0.18

1.0

0.0651*H^0.87

0.5325993944110317

MUR+CBH/LWAL+DNO/H5

0.18

1.0

0.0651*H^0.87

0.6467141742202049

Capacity plots#

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References#

A list of references and respective capacity parameters consulted during the definition of GEM’s capacity curves is presented below.

Reference

URL

Yield drift [%]

Ult drift [%]

Ty=f(H) [s]

Avila et al 2012

https://www.iitk.ac.in/nicee/wcee/article/WCEE2012_5446.pdf

0.05

0.1

-

Ahmad et al 2014

https://doi.org/10.1080/13632469.2014.963744

0.046

0.55

-

Velez 2014

https://repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt/bitstream/1822/35671/1/Thesis%20Doctoral%20Leonardo%20Avila%202014.pdf

0.04

0.3

-