The use of textile-reinforced mortar as a strengthening technique for the infill walls out-of-plane behaviour

Abstract The primary objective of this work is to present a experimental analysis textile-reinforced mortar based strengthening solutions prevent the out-of-plane (OOP) collapse masonry infills in RC buildings. campaign comprises OOP testing five full-scale infill walls made up horizontal hollow clay bricks, two them unstrengthened and remaining three strengthened, with without prior damage. All tests consisted application semi-cyclic (loading–unloading-reloading) history imposed displacements direction by means uniformly distributed load. mechanical properties adopted materials are characterized presented. results will be presented terms force–displacement responses, deformed shapes, damage evolution energy dissipation capacity. In end, tests’ compared each other assess effectiveness selected techniques provide support towards choice best strategies for future further investigations applications.