Abstract: Recent earthquakes have shown the vulnerability of unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings, which have led to an increasing demand for techniques to upgrade URM buildings. Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) can provide an upgrading ...

Abstract: The behavior of seven one-half scale masonry specimens before and after retrofitting using fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) is investigated. Four walls were built using one-half scale hollow clay masonry units and weak mortar ...

Abstract: Various papers have presented different methods for computations of mechanics and kinematics of discrete structural systems. However, little has been done in comparing and benchmarking the seismic response from two different ...