Cellular Automata method for mapping failure patterns of masonry wall panels with openings
This paper proposes a cellular automata (CA) method to map the failure patterns of laterally loaded masonry wall panels with openings. The normalized displacements of all the cells extracted directly from the finite element analysis (FEA) results are used as the state values of the CA model; and then, a maximum correlation coefficient criterion for matching zone similarity is proposed in this paper to determine the similar zones between the base (tested) and new(analyzed) panels. Finally, the criterion for judging cracking zone is used to determine the failure pattern of the masonry wall panels. The case studies indicate that the predicting failure patterns agree well with the testing results. This study expands the application of the CA method into the masonry wall panels with openings.
masonry wall panel with opening maximum correlation coefficient matching criterion failure pattern CA
Yanxia Huang Guangchun Zhou Chao Lv Shijun Sun
School of Civil Engineering Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin, China Central-South Architectural Design Institute Co., Ltd Wuhan, China School of Architecture Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin, China
国际会议
三峡
英文
3029-3032
2012-05-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）