Japan-Peru Workshop on Earthquake Disaster Mitigation, Lima 2005 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF TWO STORIES MASONRY BUILDING

SUMMARY Masonry is the likely used material to build housing in developing countries. Most of bricks are not produced in factories, so handmade bricks don’t have the appropriate resistance according with standards. In order to investigate the behavior of masonry under such conditions, a full scale on line test on two story masonry building using handmade bricks was carried out in the structure laboratory of CISMID/FIC/UNI. Three actuators under mix control drive the structure under prefixed displacement pattern. The actuators displacement reproduced a first mode configuration. The testing experiment torsion during its performance and good behavior even handmade bricks was used. Final stage of the building was found under story drift of 1/65 for a base shear of 147.86 t. Cracking pattern related with drift response is presented for this kind of building