Design approach of shear strengthened masonry: welded wire meshes, Reticulatus and cementitious plastering methods

Masonry often requires strengthening to withstand against extreme actions such as earthquakes, cyclones and flooding. Recently, new methods have been developed strengthen masonry, fabric reinforced cementitious matrixes fibre polymers. However, other systems welded wire meshing (WWM), reticulatus plastering with matrixes/mortar (CP) also practiced reinforce conversely no systematic design guidelines are available for these methods. In this study, an attempt has made establish rational approaches predict the shear resistance of WWM, CP Three sets experimental database verification. The effectiveness was appraised by comparing their structural performances. formulations unreinforced masonry (URM) strengthened were assessed established database, suitable modifications proposed effectively account contribution matrix. A unified approach estimate strength based on URM, reinforcements. is shown conservatively masonry.