Masonry infill walls are the standard solution to build envelopes and partitions in reinforced concrete buildings southern Europe. In Portugal, masonry appeared sixties, with massive use of frames for residential commercial buildings. Since then until our days infills (cavity walls) have not experienced significant changes, apart from some variations thickness introduction thermal isolation bet...

Research on infilled reinforced concrete frames is fundamental for the vulnerability assessment of existing buildings. The analysis interaction between infill and frame an open issue in performance-based earthquake engineering due to its importance predicting dynamic behavior failure modes This study provides access database laboratory tests masonry frames, collected from literature harmonized ...

Abstract In the last decades, several studies have been developed regarding structures composed by frames infilled with masonry walls, proving increase of lateral stiffness infill. this work, an analysis was carried out, based on design codes which adopt equivalent diagonal strut method, to compare theoretical results experimental ones tests performed steel concrete block masonry. Two three ass...

The behavior of dry stack masonry (DSM) is influenced by the interaction of the infill with the frame (especially the joints between bricks), which requires further research. This study investigates the compression and shear behaviors of DSM. First, a series of compression tests were carried out on both masonry prism with mortar (MP_m) and DSM prism (MP_ds). The failure mode of each prism was d...

The behavior of reinforced concrete with large strain under dynamic loading is non-linear. The non-linear modeling of the reality exactly is much difficult due to a lot of boundary conditions and limited resources. However, the engineering requirement of solutions is somehow relaxed. i.e. it only needs to be within certain limits of errors. This paper presents the interpretation of the structur...