TY - JOUR
T1 - Foundation settlement analysis of Fort Sumter National Monument
T2 - Model development and predictive assessment
AU - Prabhu, Saurabh
AU - Atamturktur, Sez
AU - Brosnan, Denis
AU - Messier, Peter
AU - Dorrance, Rick
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is funded by the National Park Service, South Atlantic Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (Contract Number: 142091). Many thanks, to Fort Sumter National Monument personnel for their cooperation and helpfulness during site visits to the fort, Benjamin Rennison for the development of the wireframe models and Peter Messier for collection of the laser-scan data. Additional thanks to Mr. Godfrey Kimball of Clemson University for his editorial assistance. Thanks to Will Alexander, an undergraduate Creative Inquiry student of Clemson University for his valuable contributions in reviewing the archival documents.
PY - 2014/4/15
Y1 - 2014/4/15
N2 - This study investigates the mechanisms by which a masonry vaulted structure responds to settlement of supports considering a wide range of possible settlement scenarios through a numerical model substantiated with experimental evidence and on-site evaluations. The simulation based investigation of settlement induced damage is completed on the Fort Sumter, SC, where the numerical model is developed through a multi-faceted approach utilizing field investigations including material testing of specimens, three-dimensional laser scanning of fort's geometry, and dynamic measurements of relative movement between adjacent structural components. The poorly known model input parameters are substantiated with comparisons against measured dynamic characteristics of the fort, and the remaining uncertainties in the input parameters are propagated to the model output to obtain a probabilistic evaluation of the fort's behavior under various settlement scenarios.
AB - This study investigates the mechanisms by which a masonry vaulted structure responds to settlement of supports considering a wide range of possible settlement scenarios through a numerical model substantiated with experimental evidence and on-site evaluations. The simulation based investigation of settlement induced damage is completed on the Fort Sumter, SC, where the numerical model is developed through a multi-faceted approach utilizing field investigations including material testing of specimens, three-dimensional laser scanning of fort's geometry, and dynamic measurements of relative movement between adjacent structural components. The poorly known model input parameters are substantiated with comparisons against measured dynamic characteristics of the fort, and the remaining uncertainties in the input parameters are propagated to the model output to obtain a probabilistic evaluation of the fort's behavior under various settlement scenarios.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.engstruct.2014.01.041
DO - 10.1016/j.engstruct.2014.01.041
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84896825851
SN - 0141-0296
VL - 65
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - Engineering Structures
JF - Engineering Structures
ER -