The construction of reliable numerical models is a key aspect within the seismic assessment existing unreinforced masonry buildings. However, it also complex process due to many uncertainties involved that can affect structural response. In situ tests allow for acquisition data at local scale. Nonetheless, supplementary information representing global response necessary overcome other (i.e., wa...

Various methodologies are available today in engineering professional practice to analyse structures, in particular in the field of masonry structures. Many of the methods are derived from reinforced concrete frames but sometimes they suffer of lack of comprehensive experimental validation due to difficulties to simulate the many different kinds of masonries and they suffer from lack of critica...

Unreinforced masonry (URM) structures are vulnerable to earthquakes; thus, materials and techniques for their strengthening restoration should be developed. However, the used in some of existing retrofitting technologies URM waste produced at its end-of-life unsustainable. The production ordinary Portland cement (OPC) worldwide has enormously contributed global carbon footprint, resulting persi...

An evaluation procedure of the seismic performance overseas RC buildings with unreinforced masonry walls is proposed and applied to an urban residential building in Nepal. The structural out-of-plane as well in-plane directions considered proposal. Consequently, interest was reliably evaluated considering effects brick walls; namely, it confirmed that did not collapse direction under analytical...

A two-step strategy for the mechanical analysis of unreinforced masonry (URM) structures, subjected to either in- or out-of-plane loading, is presented. At a first step, semi-automatic digital tool allows parametric modeling structure that, together with an upper bound limit and heuristic optimization solver, enables tracking most prone failure mechanism. second coupled concurrent FE model micr...