Structural retrofitting is carried out as an economical alternative to demolishing and rebuilding existing masonry structures. Retrofitting provided offer structural upgrade damage-control. This paper presents the application of oriented strand board type 3 (OSB/3) for unreinforced walls. Out-of-plane bending test in form four-point loading was performed on six The results show that OSB/3 can c...

Vehicular crashes into buildings seem to be an on-going problem with severe consequences. When the building is of masonry, damage at impact zone more possible intrusion vehicle building, depending on velocity impact. In all these cases, vibration propagated from wall edges and then adjoining walls in can result their damage. While has been studied, propagation impacted potential for have not tr...

This paper reports an experimental programme on masonry walls composed of handmade solid clay brick and hydraulic lime mortar. Reversed cyclic shear compression tests were carried out the in three different configurations: unreinforced, repaired retrofitted, just retrofitted. Damaged retrofitted with Basalt Textile Reinforced Mortar (B-TRM) tested again to investigate recovery strength, stiffne...

Abstract Seismic vulnerability assessment of historical unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings is crucial for the authorities due to high susceptibility URM earthquakes. Open system earthquake engineering simulation (OpenSees) a well-known, powerful, and versatile seismic analysis platform. In lack free graphical user interface (GUI) buildings, Hyperomet was designed bridge gap between n...

The vulnerability of the masonry envelop under blast loading is considered critical due to the risk of loss of lives. The dynamic behaviour of masonry infill walls subjected to dynamic out-of-plane loading was experimentally investigated in this work. Using confined underwater blast wave generators (WBWG), applying the extremely high rate conversion of the explosive detonation energy into the k...

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...