Sistema para Projeto de Edifícios de Alvenaria Estrutural pelo Método dos Estados-Limite: Módulo de Análise e Dimensionamento

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Aruac Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3803
• topic: Alvenaria estrutural; Método dos estados-limite; Dimensionamento; Structural masonry; Method of limit states; Dimensioning; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA CIVIL

The growth of the real estate market in Brazil, mainly for ranges middle and low income is an incentive to the use of structural masonry, due to the economy and rationality generated by the system. These factors serve as incentives to companies that are inserted in this branch to invest in research, in the use of new materials and processes for the analysis, and more sophisticated dimensioning, which allow the assessment of critical situations more quickly. In this context, the use of computer programs make it possible to obtain a rationalized design, helping to increase the accuracy and efficiency factors. Until recently, the dimensioning of structural masonry was done based on the method of Allowable Stresses. In the Brazilian current standards for structural masonry of concrete blocks (ABNT NBR 15961-1:2011) and ceramic blocks (ABNT NBR 15812-1:2010), the method of calculation used is the Method of Limit States, which has a semiprobabilistic base. This method considers that a safe structure is the one that has not reached any limit state during its lifetime. This work presents a computational tool, developed in the AutoLISP language and DCL, which is able to perform the structural analysis and dimensioning of masonry buildings by the Method of Limit States. The program also allows the determination of the efforts in structural masonry walls, subjected to vertical loads (self weight and reactions from the slabs), as well as the horizontal loads (wind and state of being out of plumb ) . For vertical actions, the program uses the method of isolated walls and wall groups , and for the horizontal actions, allows it to take into consideration whether or not the existence of flange in panels bracing. The developed tool uses the same platform used for the graphic designs in general (AutoCAD). Among other facilities, the tool allows, in an interactive way, the automatic interpretation of the structural elements of the building (walls and slabs) and the distribution of the actions. The application also allows the creation of a memorial of calculating for steps of obtaining the vertical and horizontal actions and the tensions, besides another, aside, for sizing and other checks. Is presented a comparison between manual calculation and the results generated by the program for a four-story masonry building. The differences found in the comparison were lower than 2.0%. The application developed has shown great efficiency, ease to use, and rapid evaluation of masonry designs.