EXAMPLE 7. VALUATION OF A BUILDING FROM LOAD-BEARING MASONRY

EXAMPLE 7: 'VALUATION OF A MASONRY BUILDING' 13 In the lower right part of the window there is a summary table of the calculated values of the selected wall that is automatically filled in by the program. The user can intervene and change the values at will. At the bottom of the window you will find, , the tensile strength fwt, the equivalent biaxial compressive strength and the mean compressive strength fm. OBSERVATIONS: They relate to studies for the assessment of load-bearing masonry and the user has fill in the fields manually. For the Average Compressive Strength even when it remains 0, the program automatically calculates based on the compressive strength fk. The Equal Biaxial Compression Strength parameter is only necessary if the masonry is checked by a stress criterion . The criterion incorporated in SCADA Pro is Karantoni et al (1993) which has the following form: