Abstract—Buildings with floating column are highly undesirable built in seismically active areas. Many urban multi-storey buildings today have floating column buildings which are adopted to accommodate parking at ground floor or reception lobbies in the first storey. The earthquake forces developed at different floor levels in a building need to be brought down along the height to the ground by...

Abstract—Various retrofit techniques for reinforced concrete frame with infill wall have been steadily developed. Among those techniques, strengthening methodology based on diagonal FRP strips (FRP bracings) has numerous advantages such as feasibility of implementing without interrupting the building under operation, reduction of cost and time, and easy application. Considering the safety of st...

An experimental study is conducted on three ½ scales, single-story, single-bay, frame specimens. The first specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with solid-brick infill. The second specimen was a reinforced concrete frame with hollow clay perforated-brick infill. The last specimen was a reinforced concrete frame without any infill. These three specimens were tested by pseudostatic method. Di...

Strengthening of the existing seismically deficient reinforced concrete (RC) buildings is an important issue in earthquake prone regions. Addition of RC shear wall as infill or external walls into the structural system has been a commonly preferred strengthening technique since the Big Erzincan Earthquake occurred in Turkey, 1992. The newly added rigid infill walls act primarily as shear walls ...

• A two-dimensional mesoscale lattice modeling approach for infill walls is proposed. Two tests were conducted aerated autoclaved concrete (AAC) infilled with and without openings. Modeling was validated the test results. Infill contact length found to depend on deformation levels. Significant wall damage in reinforced frame buildings observed past earthquakes. vast number of numerical approach...

Traditional Chinese wood residences consist of timber frames with masonry infill walls or other types infill, representing valuable heritage. A field investigation traditional village dwellings in northern China consisting mud and stone was conducted. Their construction characteristics are reported, static cyclic tests were performed on two full-size wood-stone hybrid different configurations (...