This thesis focuses on the seismic performance of unreinforced masonry wall perforated with
a door opening representing typical URM walls of many aged masonry buildings in
Indonesia. To obtain a test result that will be able to represent the local conditions, the
experiments have been conducted in the Research Institute for Human Settlements (RIHS)
laboratory in Bandung-Indonesia.
Two 75 % unreinforced masonry (URM) walls with a 1½-wythe of solid clay-brick were
constructed in Dutch bond configuration and tested until failure under quasi-static-reversed
cyclic loading. Both units were loaded vertically by constant loads representing gravity loads
on the URM wall’s tributary area. Both models were constructed using local materials and
local labours. Two features were taken into account. First, it accommodated the influence of
flanged wall and second, the URM wall was built on the stone foundation. The first URM
wall represent the plain existing URM building in Indonesia and second strengthened by
Kevlar fibre.
It was observed from the test results that the URM wall Unit-1 did not behave as a brittle
structure. It could dissipate energy without loss of strength and had a post-elastic behaviour in
terms of “overall displacement ductility” value of around 8 to 10. As predicted, the masonry
material was variable and non homogeneous which caused the hysteresis loop to be non
symmetrical between push and pull lateral load directions. It can be summarized that Kevlar
fibre strengthening technique is promising and with great ease of installation. Although
Kevlar material is more expensive when compared to other fabrics as long as it was applied at
the essential locations and in limited volumes, it can significantly increase the in-plane URM
wall capacity. With appropriate arrangements of Kevlar fibre, a practicing engineer will be
able to obtain a desired rocking mechanism in the masonry structure. Another advantage for
the architectural point of view, very thin Kevlar fibres do not reduce the architectural space.
Studies have also been undertaken to analyze the in-plane response of plain URM wall before
and after retrofiting using the current seismic standard and the Finite Element Method (FEM).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:canterbury.ac.nz/oai:ir.canterbury.ac.nz:10092/1680 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Wijanto, Ludovikus Sugeng |
| Publisher | University of Canterbury. Civil and Natural Resources Engineering |
| Source Sets | University of Canterbury |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic thesis or dissertation, Text |
| Rights | Copyright Ludovikus Sugeng Wijanto, http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/thesis/etheses_copyright.shtml |
| Relation | NZCU |
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