Abstract: This paper summarizes the results of an experimental study that investigated the seismic behavior of two three‐story, plain‐ and reinforced‐masonry buiding models with identical structural configuration. The measured ...

Abstract: A method of modifying the lateral load–lateral displacement relationship obtained by a simple monotonic racking test to represent the skeleton hysteresis curve of an arbitrary dynamic response of a reinforced-masonry wall ...

Abstract: The influence of four different lateral displacement patterns used for experimental simulation of seismic behavior of masonry walls has been studied. Thirty-two equal reinforced-masonry walls have been tested by imposing ...