Mechanism of Frictional Mortar-Less Panel and its Application in Reinforcement Concrete Frame

Abstract:

In order to improve the seismic behavior of the reinforcement concrete frame, a frictional mortar-less panel (FMP) was researched. In this masonry, the bricks are built without mortar and the lateral capability is supported by the friction between bricks. FMP has less rigid in-plane contribution, and contribute mostly to the energy dissipation of structure. To investigate the seismic behavior of FMP, a simple finite element modeling method has been proposed and verified with ANSYS. After that, the FMP was infilled in a typical reinforcement concrete frame structure and a Taft wave has been applied to research on its seismic behavior. The horizontal displacement, story drift, acceleration and base shear/axial force of RC frame has been achieved, results showed the FMP has considerable benefit to the seismic behavior of RC frame structure and worth to be promoted.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 894)
• Pages: 82-86
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.894.82
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Xiao Hong Zhou*
• Keywords: ANSYS, Frictional Mortar-Less Panel, Numerical Simulation, RC Frame, Seismic Behavior

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