Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Building Structures Ⅲ

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Structures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2024 | Viewed by 2437

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Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Interests: structural reliability; earthquake engineering; hurricane engineering; structural dynamics; sustainable materials and construction techniques; resilience to single and multiple hazards
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Department of Engineering, Universtiy of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Interests: structural engineering; civil engineering; composites for construction; structural retrofitting
Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering (DICAM), Università di Bologna, 40126 Bologna, BO, Italy
Interests: material characterization; non-destructive testing; fracture mechanics; algebraic formulation; multi-scale numerical modelling; composite materials; reinforced concrete; masonry structures; earthen buildings; additive 3D printing in construction.
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a new Collection titled “Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: "Building Structures" III”, which will collect papers invited by the Editorial Board Members.

The aim of this Collection is to provide a venue for networking and communication between Buildings and scholars in the field of Building Structures. All papers will be published as open access following peer review.

Prof. Dr. Michele Barbato
Dr. Giovanni Minafo
Dr. Elena Ferretti
Guest Editors

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A New Proposal for the Interpretation of the Diagonal Compression Test on Masonry Wallettes: The Identification of Young’s Modulus, Poisson’s Ratio, and Modulus of Rigidity
by Elena Ferretti
Buildings 2024, 14(1), 104; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14010104 - 31 Dec 2023
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This paper is the continuation of a previous study, which highlighted some inconsistencies in the RILEM guidelines for the interpretation of the diagonal compression test. Although improved compared to the ASTM guidelines, in fact, the RILEM guidelines underestimate the state of hydrostatic stress [...] Read more.
This paper is the continuation of a previous study, which highlighted some inconsistencies in the RILEM guidelines for the interpretation of the diagonal compression test. Although improved compared to the ASTM guidelines, in fact, the RILEM guidelines underestimate the state of hydrostatic stress induced by the diagonal compression test at the center of the wallette. The new interpretation of the diagonal compression test proposed in this article shows that the RILEM guidelines actually underestimate both the hydrostatic and the deviatoric stress states at the center of the wallette. The new formulation complies with the linear elastic theory and allows us to use the diagonal compression test to identify the three elastic coefficients of masonry. In particular, it allows the identification of the Poisson ratio, which instead takes on a conventional value in the RILEM and ASTM guidelines. The difference of one order of magnitude between the conventional and proposed Poisson’s ratio is in agreement with the experimental results on another brittle material, namely concrete. Finally, the new proposal fills the gap between the results provided by the two tests usually performed to identify the shear behavior of masonry: the diagonal compression test and the shear-compression test. Full article
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Active Confinement of Masonry Walls with Stainless Steel Straps: The Effect of Strap Arrangement on the in-Plane Behavior of Strength, Poisson’s Ratio, and Pseudo-Ductility
by Elena Ferretti
Buildings 2023, 13(12), 3027; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13123027 - 05 Dec 2023
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Among all the active confinement techniques, the use of pre-tensioned stainless steel straps has recently gained much attention. The flexibility of the stainless steel straps allows us to bend and pass them through the thickness of the masonry, thus creating a three-dimensional strengthening [...] Read more.
Among all the active confinement techniques, the use of pre-tensioned stainless steel straps has recently gained much attention. The flexibility of the stainless steel straps allows us to bend and pass them through the thickness of the masonry, thus creating a three-dimensional strengthening system between the two opposite facings. The use of the same perforation for the passage of several straps closed in a loop generates a continuous strengthening system that prevents parts of the structure from falling and injuring the occupants during seismic events. However, the perforations can nullify the in-plane strengthening, as they act as cylindrical hinges and make the reinforcement system labile for certain strap arrangements. Diagonal compression tests on square masonry panels performed in the present study show that the straps improve neither strength nor ductility when running along the mortar head and bed joints, arranged in square meshes. Conversely, they improve both strength and ductility when the straps make angles of ±45° with the mortar joints. Furthermore, the experimental results show that the straps exert an anisotropic effect that decreases the apparent in-plane Poisson ratio. They also provide new insights into the diagonal compression test and allow formulating a new proposal for the pseudo-ductility factor. Full article
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