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A full-scale timbrel cross vault subjected to vertical cyclical displacements in one of its supports

Torres Górriz, Benjamín; Bertolesi, Elisa; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Moragues, Juan J; Adam, Jose M (Elsevier, 2019-03-15)

[EN] Up-and-down cyclical displacement of supports-foundations, due for example to the presence of expansive soils, can affect the integrity of a structure and may even lead to its collapse. A recent study carried out at ...
A Parametric Computational Study of RC Building Structures under Corner-Column Removal Situations

Buitrago, Manuel; Bertolesi, Elisa; Garzón-Roca, Julio; Sagaseta, Juan; Adam, Jose M (MDPI AG, 2020-12)

[EN] Building progressive collapse is currently one of the hottest topics in the structural engineering field. Most of the research carried out to date on this topic has been focused on the structural analysis of the failure ...
Analysing local failure scenarios to assess the robustness of steel truss-type bridges

Caredda, Giacomo; Porcu, M. Cristina; Buitrago, Manuel; Bertolesi, Elisa; Adam, Jose M (Elsevier, 2022-07)

[EN] Many of the steel bridge collapses occur in truss-type bridges. This is, in fact, the focus of this study involving an assessment of the robustness of this type of structures based on an actual bridge that the authors ...
Ancient masonry arches and vaults strengthened with TRM, SRG and FRP composites: Experimental evaluation

Carozzi, Francesca Giulia; Poggi, Carlo; Bertolesi, Elisa; Milani, Gabriele (Elsevier, 2018)

[EN] Composite materials made with textile fibers both with polymeric and cementitious matrices are often adopted for the retrofitting of masonry arches and vaults. A specific project that analyzes the performance of ancient ...
Ancient masonry arches and vaults strengthened with TRM, SRG and FRP composites: Numerical analyses

Bertolesi, Elisa; Milani, Gabriele; Carozzi, Francesca Giulia; Poggi, Carlo (Elsevier, 2018-03-01)

[EN] The two arches and the three vaults experimentally described in Carozzi et al. (2017) are here analyzed with a novel robust FE lower bound limit analysis code, suitable to predict active failure mechanisms, lines of ...
Augustus Bridge in Narni (Italy): Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of the Still Standing Part, Possible Causes of Collapse, and Importance of the Roman Concrete Infill in the Seismic-Resistant Behavior

Bertolesi, Elisa; Milani, Gabriele; Lopane, Fulvio Domenico; Acito, Maurizio (Taylor & Francis, 2017)

[EN] The final results of advanced FE analyses performed on a Roman arch bridge, namely the Augustus Bridge (Ponte di Augusto) in Narni, center Italy are presented. The bridge, one of the most impressive Roman artworks, ...
Coupled interface-based modelling approach for the numerical analysis of curved masonry specimens strengthened by CFRP

Grande, Ernesto; Fagone, Mario; Rotunno, Tommaso; Bertolesi, Elisa; Milani, Gabriele (Elsevier, 2018-09-15)

[EN] Aim of the present paper is to numerically study the bond behavior of curved masonry specimens externally strengthened by Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer systems (CFRP). A simple 1D-modeling approach is presented to ...
Curved masonry pillars reinforced with anchored CFRP sheets: An experimental analysis

Rotunno, Tommaso; Fagone, Mario; Bertolesi, Elisa; Grande, Ernesto; Milani, Gabriele (Elsevier, 2019-10-01)

[EN] An experimental program concerning the structural behaviour of anchored Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) externally applied reinforcements bonded to portions of masonry arches is described. Two different curvatures ...
Development of an interface numerical model for C-FRPs applied on flat and curved masonry pillars

Milani, Gabriele; Fagone, Mario; Rotunno, Tommaso; Grande, Ernesto; Bertolesi, Elisa (Elsevier, 2020-06-01)

[EN] A novel interface numerical model for the incremental analysis of the debonding phenomenon of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (C-FRP) reinforcements externally applied on flat and curved masonry pillars is presented. ...
Dynamic performance of a real-scale reinforced concrete building test under a corner-column failure scenario

Adam, Jose M; Buitrago, Manuel; Bertolesi, Elisa; Sagaseta, Juan; Moragues, Juan J (Elsevier, 2020-05-01)

[EN] The topic of robustness and progressive collapse of structures has attracted significant attention within the field of structural engineering recently. This is reflected by the rise in the number of scientific papers ...
Effectiveness of Textile Reinforced Mortar (TRM) materials for the repair of full-scale timbrel masonry cross vaults

Bertolesi, Elisa; Torres Górriz, Benjamín; Adam, Jose M; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Moragues, Juan J (Elsevier, 2020-10-01)

[EN] This paper presents the experimental results obtained from tests on two masonry vaults reinforced by Textile Reinforced Mortar (TRM) materials subjected to monotonic and cyclic vertical settlements in one of their ...
Effectiveness of Textile Reinforced Mortar (TRM) Materials in preventing Seismic-Induced Damage in a U-Shaped Masonry Structure Submitted to Pseudo-Dynamic Excitations

Bertolesi, Elisa; Buitrago, Manuel; Giordano, Ersilia; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Moragues, Juan J; Clementi, Francesco; Adam, Jose M (Elsevier, 2020-07-10)

[EN] This paper presents the experimental results obtained from tests on a 2/3 scale U-shaped masonry building constructed in one of the ICITECH laboratories at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain). The prototype ...
Experimental investigation of a full-scale timbrel masonry cross vault subjected to vertical settlement

Torres Górriz, Benjamín; Bertolesi, Elisa; Moragues, Juan J; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio; Adam, Jose M (Elsevier, 2019-10-10)

[EN] Masonry cross vaults are among the most attractive structures ever created by the human race. Although cross vaults have been the subject of various numerical and experimental studies, they are still in need of further ...
Fast and reliable non-linear heterogeneous FE approach for the analysis of FRP-reinforced masonry arches

Bertolesi, Elisa; Milani, Gabriele; Fedele, Roberto (Elsevier, 2016)

[EN] A simple and reliable finite element model is presented, specifically conceived for the analysis of FRP-reinforced masonry arches. The approach proposed relies on the reduction of mortar joints to interfaces exhibiting ...
Fatigue assessment of steel riveted railway bridges: Full-scale tests and analytical approach

Bertolesi, Elisa; Buitrago, Manuel; Adam, Jose M; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio (Elsevier, 2021-07)

[EN] This paper describes a double experimental and analytical study of the fatigue behaviour of the Quisi and Ferrandet Bridges, twin 170 m long steel railway bridges constructed between 1913 and 1915 with typical Pratt ...
Homogenization towards a mechanistic Rigid Body and Spring Model (HRBSM) for the non-linear dynamic analysis of 3D masonry structures

Bertolesi, Elisa; Milani, Gabriele; Casolo, Siro (Springer-Verlag, 2018)

[EN] A mechanistic model with rigid elements and interfaces suitable for the non-linear dynamic analysis of full scale 3D masonry buildings is presented. The model relies into two steps: in the first step, a simplified ...
Implementation and validation of a total displacement non-linear homogenization approach for in-plane loaded masonry

Bertolesi, Elisa; Milani, Gabriele; Lourenço, Paulo B. (Elsevier, 2016)

[EN] Two simple homogenization models suitable for the non-linear analysis of masonry walls in-plane loaded are presented. A rectangular running bond elementary cell is discretized by means of twenty-four constant stress ...
Kinematic collapse load calculator: Circular arches

Stockdale, Gabriel; Tiberti, Simone; Camilletti, Daniela; Sferrazza Papa, Gessica; Basshofi Habieb, Ahmad; Bertolesi, Elisa; Milani, Gabriele; Casolo, Siro (Elsevier, 2018-06)

[EN] Masonry arches and their typical failure do not fall elegantly into standard design and analysis methods. The system is highly dependent on geometry and failure is dominated by mechanization, not material strength. ...
Micro-mechanical FE numerical model for masonry curved pillars reinforced with FRP strips subjected to single lap shear tests

Bertolesi, Elisa; Milani, Gabriele; Fagone, Mario; Rotunno, Tommaso; Grande, Ernesto (Elsevier, 2018-10-01)

[EN] The present paper discusses the results obtained by using a micro-mechanical FE numerical model for the study the bond behavior of some curved specimens strengthened by Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite materials. ...
Modal pushover and response history analyses of a masonry chimney before and after shortening

Minghini, Fabio; Bertolesi, Elisa; Grosso, Antonio Del; Milani, Gabriele; Tralli, Antonio (Elsevier, 2016)

[EN] The 50 m high masonry chimney located in the old industrial facility that houses the School of Engineering of the University of Ferrara, Italy, suffered severe damages during the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence. Afterward, ...