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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 106
PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 144

Dynamic Analysis of Freestanding Rigid Blocks

A. Gesualdo1, A. Iannuzzo1, M. Monaco2 and M.T. Savino2

1Department of Structural Engineering and Architecture, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy
2Department of Architecture and Industrial Design "L. Vanvitelli", Second University of Naples, Aversa, Caserta, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
A. Gesualdo, A. Iannuzzo, M. Monaco, M.T. Savino, "Dynamic Analysis of Freestanding Rigid Blocks", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 144, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.106.144
Keywords: dynamics, rigid block, rocking..

Summary
Structural engineering generally deals with structures subjected to dynamic loads with the hypothesis of deformable behaviour. However, in some cases such as art objects, isolated columns, statues, tanks of oil storage, water towers, nuclear reactors, cement blocks used for radiation shielding and special artifacts the simplified model of a rigid block simply supported on a plane can be useful. The case of free oscillations for one simply supported rigid block and two superimposed blocks, together with forced excitations of the base of one block are analyzed in this paper.

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