Influencia de las paredes de mampostería en el análisis lineal de estructura de pórticos.

Abstract

The occurrence of seismic events in Ecuador is often the main threat of damage to many current and future structures, from heavy economic losses to civilian deaths. One of the components that usually fails at the time of the earthquake is the non- structural component of masonry walls, because the design offices do not consider the influence of the walls on the general behavior of the structure under lateral load when making commercial models. The present document seeks to determine the dependence of linear numerical models of frames on the existence or non-existence of masonry modeled with a simplified method in accordance with current common practice. A comparison is made between fully masonry-filled gantries, partially masonry-filled gantries and gantries that have the first floor completely free, low height structures are evaluated, for design conditions of the city of Guayaquil.