The use of fibre reinforced polymers to improve seismic resistance of masonry

NG Shrive - Construction and Building Materials, 2006 - Elsevier
Fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs) constitute a class of advanced composite materials which
have the potential to change significantly masonry rehabilitation and strengthening. Their …

Out-of-plane strengthening of unreinforced masonry walls using near surface mounted fibre reinforced polymer strips

D Dizhur, M Griffith, J Ingham - Engineering structures, 2014 - Elsevier
The development of cost effective and minimally-invasive seismic retrofit techniques is
required for clay brick unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings because of their poor …

[PDF][PDF] A review of retrofitting of unreinforced masonry walls using composites

M ElGawady, P Lestuzzi, M Badoux - Proc., 4th International Conf …, 2004 - researchgate.net
Existing unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings have been designed with little or no
considerations for the effects of earthquake loadings. Recent earthquakes have …

In-plane retrofitting of masonry panels with fibre reinforced composite materials

B Luccioni, VC Rougier - Construction and building Materials, 2011 - Elsevier
Research activities carried out during the past years concerning the use of fibre reinforced
polymers (FRP) as external reinforcement of masonry walls have shown that this system …

Failure characteristics of FRP-strengthened masonry walls under out-of-plane loads

E Hamed, O Rabinovitch - Engineering structures, 2010 - Elsevier
The failure behavior of masonry walls strengthened with composite materials and subjected
to out-of-plane loading up to failure is analytically and experimentally investigated …

Behavior of GFRP strengthening masonry walls using glass fiber composite anchors

B Abdulsalam, AH Ali, A ElSafty, N Elshafey - Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents experimental and theoretical investigations on the short-term behavior
of stone masonry walls constructed with lime mortar. The walls were strengthened using …

Experimental investigation on out-of-plane behavior of GFRP retrofitted masonry panels

RS Nezhad, MZ Kabir - Construction and Building Materials, 2017 - Elsevier
An experimental investigation is carried out on the out-of-plane behavior of small scaled
masonry walls strengthened by glass fiber reinforced polymers. The test specimens …

Out-of-plane behavior of unreinforced masonry walls strengthened with FRP strips

E Hamed, O Rabinovitch - Composites Science and Technology, 2007 - Elsevier
The out-of-plane behavior of unreinforced masonry walls strengthened with externally
bonded fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) strips is analytically studied. The analytical model …

Shaking table test of fibre reinforced masonry walls under out-of-plane loading

RS Nezhad, MZ Kabir, M Banazadeh - Construction and Building Materials, 2016 - Elsevier
The present paper describes an experimental procedure to study the effect of retrofitting
technique using fibre reinforced composites on the out-of-plane seismic performance of …

Effects of basalt and glass fiber composites usage for strengthening on the cyclic behavior of brick infill walls

ME Arslan, B Aykanat, MA Ayyıldız, S Subaşı… - Journal of Building …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the current study, the effects of 10 mm bilaterally applied basalt fiber reinforced concrete
(BRC) and glass fiber reinforced concrete (GRC) plasters with different fiber content (1.0 …