Abstract: The large number of earthquake-prone vintage unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings in many seismically active parts of the world results in a need for minimally invasive and cost-effective strengthening techniques to enhance ...

Abstract: As part of a seismic retrofit scheme, surface bonded glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) fabric was applied to two unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings located in Christchurch, New Zealand. The unreinforced stone masonry ...

Abstract: Seismic retrofitting of unreinforced masonry buildings using posttensioning has been the topic of many recent experimental research projects. However, the performance of such retrofit designs in actual design-level earthquakes ...