ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on the description of the main design and construction phases with main regards to the experimental campaign carried out to evaluate the seismic response.
2 STRUCTURAL CONCEPT
The school (Figure 1), localized in an area of about 16000 m2, is organized in a one floor rectangular construction of about 3000 m2 around a big courtyard. The first six main buildings realized with stick built steel systems have both horizontal roof and vertical walls in cold-formed members sheathed with structural panels. In particular, the walls (Figure 2) are made with studs having 150 × 50 × 20 × 1.50 mm (outside-to-outside web depth × outside-to-outside flange size × outsideto-outside lip size × thickness) lipped channel sections spaced at 600 mm on the centre. The studs are connected at the ends to 152 × 40 × 1.50 mm (outside-to-outside web depth × outside-to-outside flange size × thickness) wall tracks. All the steel members are fabricated by S350GD+Z steel. The steel frame is sheathed with vertically oriented 9.0 mm thick OSB/3 panels on both faces.
