000012107 001__ 12107 000012107 005__ 20141205160020.0 000012107 04107 $$aeng 000012107 046__ $$k2008-10-12 000012107 100__ $$aWorakanchana, Kawin 000012107 24500 $$a3-D Applied Element Method for PP-Band Retrofitted Masonry 000012107 24630 $$n14.$$pProceedings of the 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering 000012107 260__ $$b 000012107 506__ $$arestricted 000012107 520__ $$2eng$$aIn this study, we have proposed a new 3-D Applied Element Method (AEM) as an analysis tool for understanding the polypropylene band retrofitted masonry behavior which will be benefit in the future design process and increase the degree of freedoms of failure mode. Unlike the previous version of 3-D AEM, elements can be any rectangular prism which helps reducing the number of elements. Brick and mortar springs are represented by using different spring properties. Nonlinear constitutive law of the mortar spring employed the Gambarotta model which considers the material softening. Polypropylene band is modeled as beam element using plastic constitutive law connected together with the masonry by elastic spring representing the polypropylene band to brick connector. The numerical simulation of non-retrofitted and retrofitted out of plane wallets shows that with the suitable selected parameter the behavior of masonry can be closely reproduced. 000012107 540__ $$aText je chráněný podle autorského zákona č. 121/2000 Sb. 000012107 653__ $$aApplied Element Method, Masonry, 3-D Simulation, Polypropylene band, Retrofit 000012107 7112_ $$a14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering$$cBejing (CN)$$d2008-10-12 / 2008-10-17$$gWCEE15 000012107 720__ $$aWorakanchana, Kawin$$iMayorca, Paola$$iGuragain, Ramesh$$iNavaratnaraj, Sathiparan$$iMeguro, Kimiro 000012107 8560_ $$ffischerc@itam.cas.cz 000012107 8564_ $$s522634$$uhttps://invenio.itam.cas.cz/record/12107/files/14-0247.pdf$$yOriginal version of the author's contribution as presented on CD, Paper ID: 14-0247. 000012107 962__ $$r9324 000012107 980__ $$aPAPER