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Title: Experimental characterization of the out-of-plane behaviour of masonry infill walls made of lightweight concrete blocks
Author: Agante, Marta
Furtado, André
Rodrigues, Hugo
Arêde, António
Fernandes, Paulo
Varum, Humberto
Keywords: Masonry infill walls
Lightweight concrete blocks
Out-of-plane behaviour
Experimental testing
Force-displacement
Energy dissipation
Issue Date: 1-Oct-2021
Publisher: Elsevier
Abstract: Masonry infill walls are widely spread over the reinforced concrete buildings due to different demands. The buildings' thermal energy efficiency is a top priority nowadays since many of the existing building stock comprises buildings with low energy performance. The buildings' external envelope is undergoing a transformation with the vertical hollow concrete blocks' appearance with high thermal and acoustic demands. However, recent evidence from a strong earthquake shows that the masonry infill walls are quite vulnerable to out-of-plane loadings and were responsible for many casualties, injuries and economic losses. Based on that, this work's main objective is to study the out-of-plane (OOP) behaviour of masonry infills made with vertical hollow concrete blocks. The experimental campaign comprises the OOP testing of three full-scale infill walls made up of these masonry units, one of them as-built without previous damage, one with previous damage due to an earlier in-plane test and the third one retrofitted. All the tests consisted of applying the loading–unloading-reloading history of imposed displacements in the OOP direction through a uniformly distributed load. The results will be presented in terms of OOP force–displacement responses, damage evolution and energy dissipation capacity. The test results are compared to assess the previous damage effect and the retrofit technique's effectiveness. A final study is presented concerning the masonry unit and slenderness effect with other literature results.
Peer review: yes
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10773/31538
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2021.112755
ISSN: 0141-0296
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