Study of the stiffness and lateral displacements of a confined masonry wall using linear static analysis

Abstract

Through this investigative study, a computational model will be carried out based on the physical and mechanical properties of a confined masonry wall through specialized software in structures, the above will be done in conjunction with the theoretical study of the finite element method, analysis linear static and its implementation in the model, this will allow a detailed analysis of the stiffness and average lateral displacement of the structural element with areas without discretization, and different sizes of discretization when subjected to a lateral load distributed in the upper part of the structure a slab. This research project will allow the development of a broader perspective on this type of structures and their mechanical behavior when subjected to external disturbances; In addition to providing the possibility of managing critical thinking about decisions to consider in future research on the type of modeling that best behaves in this type of structural elements. The main focus of physics in the article focuses on the need to improve the safety of houses built with adobe against possible seismic phenomena that can cause failures and weaknesses in their structural part, that is, to lay the foundations for the study of the reinforcement of these structures with the contribution of mechanical properties, and it is expected that the mechanical behavior before gravitational loads and accelerations produced by seismic loads in the masonry wall will improve significantly. By means of mathematical models and explained by means of physics, it is expected to estimate the efforts that a wall without reinforcement would present before the loads and compare them with the results obtained in laboratory tests.