Door or window openings in masonry infill panels can reduce the lateral strength and stiffness
of infill-frame systems. In an effort to study these effects, a series of tests were conducted …

… of infilled frames. The empirically developed factors presented in this report modify original
infilled frame … , flexibility of confining frame elements, and presence of infill openings. These …

… In particular, this will be the case if we model an unreinforced masonry infill with a smeared
crack model alone. An unreinforced masonry infill has its natural planes of weakness …

… unreinforced brick masonry infills on the strength and stiffness characteristics of reinforced
concrete frames … study how the presence of unreinforced masonry infills modifies the stiffness, …

… The infill wall of one RC frame was constructed having window while the other infilled frame
was provided with both door and window. Each infilled frame was constructed on a RC pad …

… Over the last 50 years, research has mainly focused on characterizing the In-Plane behaviour
of unreinforced masonry infill walls. Recently, the focus of research has been addressed to …

… modes of masonry infilled frames have … masonry infilled frames with openings have been
provided using the experimental results obtained for frames infilled with unreinforced masonry …

… masonry infilled reinforced concrete frames is sparse. This paper investigates the seismic
performance of masonry infilled reinforced concrete frames … -bay frame specimens designed …

… The first program consisted of 18 specimens, 2 bare and 16 unreinforced masonry (URM)
infilled. The second program was an extension and a supplement of the previous one. It …

… Unreinforced Masonry infill walls (URM) are commonly used in the Reinforced Concrete (RC)
framed structures as interiors and exteriors partition walls. Although they usually are not …