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Experimental study of the out-of-plane behaviour of masonry infill walls with and without previous in-plane damage

dc.contributor.authorFurtado, A.
dc.contributor.authorArêde, A.
dc.contributor.authorVarum, H.
dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Hugo
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-16T16:54:27Z
dc.date.available2025-07-16T16:54:27Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractRecent earthquakes demonstrated a significant contribution of the masonry infill walls in the structural response of the existent reinforced concrete buildings. When subjected to seismic actions, they tend to interact with the surrounding RC frames, which can result in different failure modes depending on the combination of the in-plane and the out-of-plane behaviour. From the surveys on damaged and collapsed RC buildings in the L’Aquila (Italy) and Lorca (Spain) earthquakes a large number of buildings that suffered severe damage or collapse had their poor performance associated with the influence of the infill panels. The masonry infill walls are considered non-structural elements but, their contribution should be considered in the structural response analysis of existing buildings, for which the understanding out-ofplane non-linear behaviour of infill walls is of full importance in order to develop efficient strengthening solutions to prevent and improve their performance in future earthquakes, and consequently reduce their seismic vulnerability. The main objective of the present paper was to obtain further knowledge concerning to the out-of-plane response of masonry infill walls panels. For this an experimental testing campaign on full scale infill walls was carried out in three experimental (cyclic and monotonic) out-of-plane tests with and without previous in-plane damage. The experimental campaign, material characterization and the test setup will be described along the manuscript as well as the main experimental tests results will be presented and discussed.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors would like to acknowledge the technicians of the LESE laboratory, Mr. Valdemar Luis and Mr. Nuno Pinto for their support in the experiments reported in this paper, and Preceram for the provision of all the bricks used in the experiments.
dc.identifier.isbn978-113802999-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/13678
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedn/a
dc.publisherCRC Press/Balkema
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85016105431
dc.rights.uriN/A
dc.subjectBrick
dc.subjectConcrete buildings
dc.subjectEarthquakes
dc.subjectGeophysics
dc.subjectMasonry materials
dc.subjectReinforced concrete
dc.subjectSeismology
dc.titleExperimental study of the out-of-plane behaviour of masonry infill walls with and without previous in-plane damageeng
dc.typeconference paper
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.conferenceDate2016
oaire.citation.endPage1208
oaire.citation.startPage1201
oaire.citation.titleBrick and Block Masonry: Trends, Innovations and Challenges - Proceedings of the 16th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference, IBMAC 2016
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
person.familyNamePinheiro Rodrigues
person.givenNameHugo Filipe
person.identifierE-5195-2010
person.identifier.ciencia-idB610-29E9-0E49
person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-1373-4540
person.identifier.scopus-author-id23019838500
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