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

9630095 Sollitt该项目的目标是制造隔离墙，用于受飓风和海浪作用的沿海地区，可预测，更安全，功能更强。这项工作将提高对荷载-墙-结构相互作用的理解，结果将最大限度地减少墙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，它们是：首先，确定墙板和连接的行为和容量；第二，预测墙体连接传递环境荷载时母体结构的响应；第三，提高量化作用于分离墙的环境荷载以及与这些极端荷载相互作用的墙的响应和破坏模式的能力；第四，通过整合在前三个任务中获得的知识，并通过验证这些实验结果开发的模型，改进防波堤的设计和施工过程。前两项任务目前正在北卡罗来纳州立大学（NCSU）进行。第三项任务将在本项目下进行，最后一项任务将包括前三项任务的成果，并将在国家科学中心进行。＊＊＊

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. ***