Experimental Verification of Failure Modes Due to Wave Forces on Breakaway Walls

9630095 Sollitt该项目的目标是使用于遭受飓风风浪作用的沿海地区的分离墙具有可预测性、安全性和功能性。 这项工作将提高对荷载-墙体-结构相互作用的理解，其结果将最大限度地减少墙体设计和施工中的不确定性。 为了实现这些目标，确定了四项任务：第一，确定墙板和连接件的性能和承载力;第二，预测母体结构对由墙连接件传递的环境荷载的响应;第三，提高量化作用在分离墙上的环境荷载以及与这些墙相互作用的墙的响应和破坏模式的能力极端负荷;第四，通过整合前三个任务中获得的知识，并通过验证利用这些实验结果开发的模型，改进分离墙的设计和施工过程。 前两项任务目前正在北卡罗来纳州州立大学（NCSU）进行。 第三项任务将在本项目下进行，最后一项任务将纳入前三项任务的成果，并将在国家能力支助股进行。 ***

9630095 Sollitt The objectives of the project are to make breakaway walls, used in coastal areas subjected to the wind and wave actions of hurricanes, predictable, safer and functional. This work will improve the understanding of load-wall-structure interactions and the results will minimize uncertainties in wall design and construction. Four tasks were identified to accomplish these objectives and they are: first, to determine the behavior and capacity of wall panels and connections; second, to predict the response of parent structure to environmental loads transmitted by wall connections; third, to improve the ability to quantify environmental loads acting on breakaway walls as well as the response and modes of failure of walls interacting with these extreme loads; and fourth, to improve the design and construction processes of breakaway walls by incorporating knowledge garnered in the three previous tasks and by validating the models developed with these experimental results. The first two tasks are currently underway at North Carolina State University (NCSU). The third task will be undertaken under the present project, and the last task will incorporate the results of the first three tasks and will be conducted at NCSU. ***