Towards Performance-Based Design of Masonry Buildings: Literature Review

Masonry is among the most widely used construction materials around world. Contemporary masonry buildings are primarily designed to comply with prescriptive building code regulations. In recent decades, performance-based design (PBD) has gained increasing attention and achieved significant success in critical structures or infrastructure systems. Instead of being first mover, research practice community can be a faster follower response paradigm shift towards PBD for buildings. A reliable performance assessment paramount importance framework. To facilitate this, this paper presents an up-to-date comprehensive literature review experimental analytical studies emphasis on their contributions advancement This categorized available works into two sub-topics: (1) traditional unreinforced (2) modern reinforced masonry. each sub-topic, focusing structural behaviors at component-level (i.e., wall) discussed first, followed by system-level-related studies. Through review, current state art remaining gaps identified provide guidance future needs pave way implementing industry.