… of infilled frame and assess its performance against its infilled RC … , including 11 all-masonry
infilled frame specimens and four … from the opening corners to infill corners. Specimens with …

… wall was accompanied by many horizontal cracks and some diagonal cracks, and the damage
to Specimen V was limited; notably, only a few corners of the masonry infill were crushed. …

… opening offset to length of masonry-infill ratio ( c e L ) and a parabolic relation with opening
area to masonry-infill … The opening at the bottom- right corner causes failure of bricks shortly …

… structure about the common corner of the two infilled … of masonry panels, with or without
openings. Last but not least, during the service life of a structure the geometry of masonry infills …

… It was also concluded that the presence of opening does not alter specimen’s dynamic
behaviour. No local effects at the corners of the openings were investigated. As mentioned before …

… frame with masonry infill, frames are designed to carry all loads and … at corners of openings,
which leads to formation of diagonal (shear) cracks and consequently failure of the masonry …

… and shear sliding, eventually culminating in crushing of the compressed corners, is noted.
Different infill configurations are tested, including central openings and an initial gap between …

… Furthermore, some brick outer shells fell off and the corner brick on the left infill pier was
crushed (Fig. 7). The diagonal cracking propagated further with the increase of the applied in-…

… This is because the vertical load acting on the columns can enhance the corner constraint
effect of the surrounding frame on the infill wall, which leads to the improvement of the stiffness …

… of openings within the infill wall would reduce the lateral stiffness. The fundamental period
increases as the opening … and significant difference in steel requirements in corner column. …