confined masonry buildings are used in rural and urban areas of iran. they performed almost satisfactoryduring past moderate earthquakes of iran. there is not a methodology in iranian seismic code (standard 2800-3rdedition) to estimate their capacities quantitatively. in line with removing this constraint, an attempt is made to studyin-plane behavior of two squared confined masonry walls with a...

The application of steel fiber reinforced polymer (SRP) as a means of increasing the capacity of masonry columns is investigated in this study. The behavior of 23 solid-brick specimens that are externally wrapped by SRP sheets in low volumetric ratios is presented. The specimens are subjected to axial monotonic load until failure occurs. Two widely used types of masonry columns of differing squ...

Masonry structures are popularly built in many parts of India so it is necessary to provide suitable guidelines and safety rules for proper construction masonry buildings.Confined (CM) appearing as anaccepted building technique earthquake-prone countries including India. falls under four earthquake zones namely, zone II, III, IV V. CMconstruction type has been known perform well numerousmajorse...

This research investigates the nonlinear behavior of scaled infilled masonry (IFM), confined (CM), and reinforced concrete (RC) structures by utilizing validating two tests from literature as benchmarks. The validation was based on a comparison with pushover results small-scaled physical their numerical modeling. Numerical modeling small-scale (1:4 1:3) IFM, CM, RC models has been carried out F...