Abstract
Project SHELTER - Structural Hyper-Resisting Element for Life-Threatening Earthquake Risk aims at developing an innovative solution to save lives on severe seismic events that may lead to buildings’ collapses. The solution basically consists in creating a strongly reinforced protecting capsule (thenceforth referred as shelter), architectonically integrated, installed at a central zone of a house/office/etc (preferably entrance hall or corridors), where people may be kept protected.This paper presents the vertical and diagonal static tests carried out on full-scale models of the shelter and their numerical reproduction and validation. The experimental campaign comprised two vertical and two diagonal tests on four prototypes (two prototype versions). The vertical tests were defined to assess the capacity of the shelter to support the impact of falling debris while the diagonal tests were performed to assess its resistance against a tilted downfall. The test results showed that both prototypes had adequate and continuous plastic behaviour without any sudden reduction in their loading capacity or brittle failure, either in their elements or in their connections.
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