Performance of masonry enclosure walls: Lessons learned from recent earthquakes

Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-34

  Vicente, Romeu Silva ^a   Rodrigues, Hugo ^a   Varum, Humberto ^a   Costa, Aníbal ^a   da Silva, José António Raimundo Mendes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

cracking; in plane; infill walls; masonry enclosure walls; out of plane; performance improvement; RC structures

Indexed keywords

IN-PLANE; INFILL WALLS; MASONRY ENCLOSURE WALLS; OUT-OF-PLANE; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; RC STRUCTURE;

CRACK INITIATION; ENCLOSURES; MASONRY MATERIALS; REINFORCED CONCRETE; SEISMIC DESIGN; SEISMOLOGY; STABILITY CRITERIA; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 84859234469     PISSN: 16713664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11803-012-0095-3     Document Type: Article

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