In-Plane Behavior of Masonry Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frames with Wooden Choh-kat Openings
Shujaat Hussain Buch1, Javed Ahmad Bhat2
1Shujaat Hussain Buch, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Jammu & Kashmir, India.
2Javed Ahmad Bhat, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Hazratbal, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India.
Manuscript received on November 17, 2012. | Revised Manuscript received on December 01, 2012. | Manuscript published on December 30, 2012. | PP: 400-405 | Volume-2, Issue-2, December 2012. | Retrieval Number: B0840112212 /2012©BEIESP
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Abstract: Determination of the behavior of infilled framed structures with openings has been a matter of study lately. However, analysis of infilled structures have of yet ignored the vital effect of opening frameworks, which in Kashmir valley is a wooden assembly called ‘Choh-kats’. This study focuses on study of the behavior of the infilled frames with wooden ‘Choh-kats’ under in-plane lateral loads and is based on determination of initial lateral stiffness of infilled frame with wooden choh-kat under control parameters of opening location, opening area, opening aspect ratio and model of choh-kat framework. The finite elements are used to illustrate the behavior, and linear stiffness of the frames is determined at 10% lateral strength of a fully infilled frame. This work illustrates that the in-plane lateral stiffness of the frame increases with the addition of choh-kat and also gives a better understanding of illustrating infill with choh-kat openings as multiple compressive struts.
Keywords: Brick infills, finite element method, lateral stiffness, wooden choh-kat.