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Out-of-plane seismic response of stone masonry walls: experimental and analytical study of real piers
This paper presents the application of an existing simplified displacement-based procedure to the
characterization of the nonlinear force-displacement relationship for the out-of-plane behaviour of
unreinforced traditional masonry walls. According to this procedure, tri-linear models based on three
different energy based criteria were constructed and confronted with three experimental tests on
existing stone masonry constructions. Moreover, a brief introduction is presented regarding the main
characteristics of the in situ cyclic testing recently carried out using distributed loads, as well as results
obtained during the experimental campaigns performed. The comparison between the experimental and the analytical results are presented and discussed
Out-of-plane in situ cyclic testing of unreinforced stone masonry walls with distributed loads
The present paper reports an in situ experimental test campaign carried out on existing
buildings, in order to investigate the seismic behaviour of traditional masonry walls subject to
out-of-plane loads. For the testing proposes, an experimental test setup based on a selfequilibrated
scheme was developed and optimized to be applied in situ in two specimens on
original and strengthened conditions. The obtained results are presented and carefully
discussed namely from the reinforcement solutions’ efficiency point-of-view, as well as
compared to previous experimental data obtained for the same type of masonry walls.
Additionally, a simplified linearized displacement-based procedure was adapted in order to
characterize the nonlinear force-displacement relationship for unreinforced traditional
masonry walls and to analytically predict the experimental test results. The confrontation
between the experimental and the analytical results are presented and discussed
Elastic amplitudes studied with the LHC measurements at 7 and 8 TeV
Recent measurements of the differential cross sections in the forward region
of pp elastic scattering at 7 and 8 TeV show precise form of the
dependence. We propose a detailed analysis of these measurements including the
structures of the real and imaginary parts of the scattering amplitude. A good
description is achieved, confirming in all experiments the existence of a zero
in the real part in the forward region close to the origin, in agreement with
the prediction of a theorem by A. Martin, with important role in the observed
form of . Universal value for the position of this zero and
regularity in other features of the amplitudes are found, leading to
quantitative predictions for the forward elastic scattering at 13 TeV.Comment: 22 pages, 17 figures and 4 table
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