In the history of our civilization, masonry structures date back thousands of years.
Considering the different types, geometries, and arrangements of masonry components, as …

Masonry is one of the oldest fundamental materials used in construction. Structures made by
masonry materials without reinforcement, however, routinely exhibit poor performance when …

Unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings are common throughout Latin America, the
Himalayan region, Eastern Europe, Indian subcontinent and other parts of Asia. It has been …

The performance of various composite materials applied to strengthen hollow masonry
panels under out-of-plane actions is compared here. The strengthening solutions belong to …

The presented study is part of ongoing experimental program on Un-Reinforced Masonry
(URM) walls strengthened with Textile reinforced mortars (TRM). Ten walls were tested …

Masonry structures commonly exist in reality and still are popular all over the world. It has
been reported and studied that these buildings are vulnerable to strong external loadings …

Unreinforced masonries are weak against seismic loads which necessitates their retrofitting.
Ferrocement is widely used as it is cheaper than alternative methods of retrofitting. Some …

Nepalese buildings are typically constructed using unreinforced masonry (URM) as the
lateral load-bearing system. In the 2015 Nepal Gorkha earthquake several URM buildings …

The aim of seismic strengthening for masonry buildings is to upgrade structural strength and
improve inelastic deformation capacity. Most of the strengthening techniques in practice are …

The preliminary findings of cyclic tests conducted on a series of half-scale unstrengthened
and strengthened masonry walls are presented. Reinforced walls were strengthened by (i) …