topic Re: masonry wall panels in Robot Structural Analysis Forum

masonry wall panels

Anonymous — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 14:56:36 GMT

I would like to design and check a masonry wall panel with irregular distribution of openings subjected to vertical and wind loads.

Please, can you suggest the best way to do this?

Thanks

Regards,

Viviana

Re: masonry wall panels

Rafacascudo — Mon, 04 Sep 2017 17:03:02 GMT

Try here https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis-forum/masonry-wall-design/m-p/3392255#M3672

For additional posts , type masonry on search field

Re: masonry wall panels

ar2851 — Sat, 02 May 2020 16:21:25 GMT

It's been eight years since those answers. Is there going to be a day when we will see a proper masonry design module?

Re: masonry wall panels

Simau — Sat, 02 May 2020 20:51:11 GMT

I have never used robot for modeling masonry walls, but tried to keep it simple. For a shear masonry wall, i rather try to find a possible path of the efforts of compression, while trying to avoid the openings (windows, doors). Once a working model is found, I determine the forces in these fictitious diagonals either manually or by a simple 2D robot model.
A commonly accepted rule is to take the diagonals with a section Ex4E E being the thickness of the masonry