Papers by Fabio Infante Garcia
This paper seek to build a revision on asymmetric information in Brazilian stock market. The anal... more This paper seek to build a revision on asymmetric information in Brazilian stock market. The analysis will be conducted in the context of an equilibrium model of the issue-invest decision developed by Myers e Majluf. This study will seek to discuss new asymmetric information ...
The present paper reports an in situ experimental test campaign carried out on existing buildings... more The present paper reports an in situ experimental test campaign carried out on existing buildings, in order to investigate the seismic behaviour of traditional masonry walls subject to out-of-plane loads. For the testing proposes, an experimental test setup based on a selfequilibrated scheme was developed and optimized to be applied in situ in two specimens on original and strengthened conditions. The obtained results are presented and carefully discussed namely from the reinforcement solutions' efficiency point-of-view, as well as compared to previous experimental data obtained for the same type of masonry walls. Additionally, a simplified linearized displacement-based procedure was adapted in order to characterize the nonlinear force-displacement relationship for unreinforced traditional masonry walls and to analytically predict the experimental test results. The confrontation between the experimental and the analytical results are presented and discussed.
Journal of Fluorine Chemistry, Oct 1, 2014
Experimental testing of existing structures possesses great advantages but also severe inconvenie... more Experimental testing of existing structures possesses great advantages but also severe inconveniences, especially when dealing with masonry structures. Indeed, the simulation of existing masonry materials under laboratorial environments is one of the major drawbacks when dealing with experimental characterization of masonry elements, also with the representativeness of the local boundary conditions. On the other hand, a controlled environment under lab tests turns out possible the use of large reaction structures and extensive instrumentation, characterizing more clearly the desired behaviour and taking into account any other possible disturbances to the test protocol. In order to assess the out-of-plane behaviour of existing masonry structures, several advances have been made in the last decade, aiming at characterizing masonry specimens in their original conditions. In this article, the main experimental tests developed for experimental in-situ assessment of the out-of- plane beha...
The present paper reports an in situ experimental test campaign carried out on existing buildings... more The present paper reports an in situ experimental test campaign carried out on existing buildings, in order to investigate the seismic behaviour of traditional masonry walls subject to out-of-plane loads. For the testing proposes, an experimental test setup based on a selfequilibrated scheme was developed and optimized to be applied in situ in two specimens on original and strengthened conditions. The obtained results are presented and carefully discussed namely from the reinforcement solutions' efficiency point-of-view, as well as compared to previous experimental data obtained for the same type of masonry walls. Additionally, a simplified linearized displacement-based procedure was adapted in order to characterize the nonlinear force-displacement relationship for unreinforced traditional masonry walls and to analytically predict the experimental test results. The confrontation between the experimental and the analytical results are presented and discussed.
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Papers by Fabio Infante Garcia