Masonry infill walls are among the most vulnerable components of reinforced concrete (RC) frame structures. Recently, some techniques for enhancing performance infills have been proposed, aiming at improving both global and local behaviour infilled structure. Among promising ones, there those that aim to decouple or reduce infill-frame interaction by means flexible sliding joints, relying respe...

A series of structural tests were conducted to examine the seismic performance masonry infills strengthened with particular materials on infilled reinforced concrete (RC) frame structures. Six 1:4 scaled-down RC specimens had been prepared, including one brick-infilled without strengthening and five brick innovative materials. The steel wire mesh, chicken hexagonal plastic fiber-reinforced poly...

Two new, highly efficient single-parameter seismic intensity measures (IMs), one structure-specific and structure-independent, are proposed for use on both bare infilled reinforced concrete frames. The efficiency of these IMs has been evaluated along with the several other parameters over a group 1568 ability investigated to predict damage is basis correlation between damage, dispersion this co...

Reinforced Concrete (RC) buildings with masonry infills are a very common structural typology worldwide for civil, strategic, or productive use. Damage to may cause danger human lives and strongly affects economic losses, as shown during past earthquakes. In the current literature, different approaches available modeling in-plane response of infilled frames constitutive laws generally calibrate...

The primary objective is to present the most representative types of damage observed in reinforced concrete (RC) structures due earthquakes. Those damages are divided according ten types. Examples and main reasons that could trigger each failure mechanism presented. definition these supported by post-earthquake reconnaissance missions Sichuan (China) 2008, L’Aquila (Italy) 2009, Lorca (Spain) 2...