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Procedia Structural Integrity 44 (2023) 1364–1371

XIX ANIDIS Conference, Seismic Engineering in Italy Comparison of the effects of traditional and innovative tie-rods in reducing the seismic vulnerability of church façades: the case of San Francesco in Mirandola (Italy)

Omar AlShawa a , Linda Giresini a, *, Claudia Casapulla b a Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica, Roma, Italy b Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy

© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the XIX ANIDIS Conference, Seismic Engineering in Italy. Abstract This contribution discusses the effect of steel tie-rods installed in a church façade subjected to 60 recorded earthquakes. The church façade is firstly analysed as a two-sided and a one-sided rocking SDOF system. For the one-sided rocking, sidewalls are modelled through either elastic or rigid contact to compare the two modelling techniques. Secondly, two configurations of tie rods are investigated: (i) traditional tie-rods with a specific elasto-plastic constitutive law and (ii) innovative tie-rods with a dissipative component. The chosen case study is the San Francesco Church located in Mirandola, hit by the 2012 Emilia Romagna earthquake. The results of nonlinear dynamic analyses are presented in terms of median and standard deviation of maximum normalised displacements for each of the 60 seismic inputs. The results show the great benefit introduced by both traditional and dissipative tie-rods, with remarkable reductions of maximum rotations up to an order of magnitude with respect to the unrestrained façade. Moreover, the increment of damping coefficient is associated to a reduction of the standard deviation of the amplitude peaks, which is a positive aspect for the reliability of the response of the damped wall. Finally, the two models, rigid and elastic contact, of sidewalls provide results in excellent agreement in terms of median and standard deviation of the maximum normalised rotations. © 2022 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the XIX ANIDIS Conference, Seismic Engineering in Italy Keywords: out-of-plane; dissipation of energy; one-sided rocking; rigid contact; elastic contact; sidewalls T NC-ND license ( https://c

* Corresponding author. E-mail address: linda.giresini@uniroma1.it

2452-3216 © 2022 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the XIX ANIDIS Conference, Seismic Engineering in Italy

2452-3216 © 2023 The Authors. Published by ELSEVIER B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0) Peer-review under responsibility of the scientific committee of the XIX ANIDIS Conference, Seismic Engineering in Italy. 10.1016/j.prostr.2023.01.175