… the seismic behavior of masonry infilled RC frames with/without openings. Four full-scale, …
infill, the inclined cracks propagated from the openings corner to the bounding masonry. The …

… and the surrounding frame and also to adequately capture the corner crushing failure …
of the difficulties of the macro-models is the difficulty to represent infill panels with openings. …

… of masonry infilled RC frame with a central opening structure … clay brick masonry infilled
RC frame without opening and … of opening and then the infill wall failed in shear at the corner …

… , the cracks were dominated at the corners of the openings. The in-plane … infilled with solid
clay brick-masonry (IFSW) and one of brick masonry infilled RC frame with a central opening (…

… is valid for opening in walls greater than 5% and less than 40% [21]. In this study, opening in
infill is … Additionally, the corner infill at the ground story RC infilled frame is also in an unsafe …

… frame configuration with a 1.44 m wide full-height opening in the middle third of the span (…
cracks towards the corners of the infill, particularly in the bottom half of the infill, could be …

… the corners). Heavier interventions are required to repair an … for infill masonry walls with and
without openings respectively. … in masonry infills with and without the presence of openings. …

… ), which considered a range of openings in RC masonry infill walls, in this paper, centralised
… a localised failure at the window corner even though the opening percentage is small. The …

… Therefore, starting from the 89 tests about infill panels without openings, only 60 are useful …
the infill in at least one of its corners. This mode is usually associated with weak masonry infill …

… corners of the opening. Only after that, do cracks develop towards the compressed corners
… in a simplified approach to simulate masonry infill walls with central openings (ie, central …