Masonry Shear Walls subjected to Cyclic Loading:Influence of Confinement and Horizontal Reinforcement
January 6, 2012 by Confined Masonry Network
Filed under Existing Guidelines
Authors: Jao P.Gouveia and Paulo B.Lourenco (Portugal)
Reference: Tenth North American Masonry Conference, June 3-6, 2007, St Louis, Missouri, USA
Summary:
Experiments were conducted on masonry walls (scale-down 1:2) subjected to in-plane cyclic actions and constant pre-compression for evaluation of shear strength, ductility, energy dissipation and stiffness. Also discussed on possibility of replacing the filling of the vertical joints by interlocking and horizontal bed joint reinforcement and need for filling vertical joints in confined masonry solutions.