EXAMPLE 11. MASONRY WITH THE EQUAL FRAME METHOD

PARADEIGMA 11: " MASONRY M.I.P." 19 A red square may also be displayed, indicating that the end has failed in tension. In the tensile test, the tensile strength given in the masonry library is taken into account, i.e. the pile and the lintel do not fail immediately but first exhaust their tensile strength. Now, the measure of the rotation of the plastic joint is obtained as the absolute value of the algebraic difference of the rotation of the auxiliary node (the node created at a distance of 1 cm from the node of the end of the member) minus the rotation of the node of the end of the member. When I have selected in this step the curve stops and starts a new one. The vector has now been modified with the corresponding degrees of freedom at the ends of the members, i.e. joints have been applied to these ends if we have NOT checked the "Residual Strength" option If we have checked it, then these members in the new curve participate normally without joints, but with two basic modifications in their skeletal diagram: 1. Their strength, which, as we said, is the smallest of the 4 (3 in-plane and 1 out-of-plane) and calculated in the λ procedure, is reduced by the percentage indicated in the Vres field and is the remaining strength after failure of the end of the element. 2. The limit θu is incremented by the value indicated in the θmax field. The fact is that the above is not provided for by the KADET but by the KANEPE as follows