… influence of the masonry infill panel opening in the reduction of the infilled frames stiffness
has been … of an infilled frame without connectors reduces its lateral strength about 75% and its …

… The transfer of lateral forces across infilled frames causes nonuniform stress distribution … in
infilled frame analysis by replacing the masonry infill with an equivalent compressive masonry …

… It was noted that the lateral strength of the frame with weak masonry infill was in some cases
… of the strong masonry infill and was attributed to the larger units of the weak masonry infill. It …

… This study examines the lateral strength of infill masonry frames based on an analysis of
6,496 frames … The compressive strength of the masonry prism primarily influences the lateral …

… lateral resistance of an infilled frame is not equal to a simple sum of those of the infill and the
bounding frame because frame–infill … At a low lateral load level, an infilled frame acts as a …

… Abstract: This paper introduces a new analytical approach for the evaluation of shear
strength and cracking pattern of masonry infill panels. This method is based on minimizing the …

… of lateral stiffness and strength of masonry-infilled RC buildings… on the lateral load behavior
of the infilled frames designed … reduction in lateral strength and stiffness of infilled frames due …

… steel frames with unreinforced masonry infills having large window openings. The primary
object of this research was to correlate the damage of the masonry infill to the lateral strength …

… In this section, the lateral strength (V in ) of the CB infill is evaluated according to Equation
9… 7, was then employed to calculate the lateral strength of the CB infill. It should also be noted …

… infilled frame. In this paper, a simple method for estimating the lateral resistance of infilled
frames … reinforced concrete frame specimens were tested under in-plane lateral loading. The …