Analysis of structural masonry shear walls taking into account the cracking effects
Structural masonry, shear wall, modeling, equivalente frame method, cracking effects.
This paper presents analysis of structural masonry shear wall behavior considering the effects of the cracking in mortar joints taking into account the cracking effects. For this purpose, it was used the simplified model of equivalent bars, including link elements between the bars to simulate the cracking numerically. The analyzes were performed using the software SAP2000 and consisted in the modeling of two shear walls that was tested experimentally by Nascimento Neto [1]. The results have shown that the idealized computational modeling reproduced satisfactory the effects of cracking, simulating the nonlinear behavior of the masonry in common.