As part of the 'Project Masonry'Recovery Project funded by the New Zealand Natural
Hazards Research Platform, commencing in March 2011, an international team of …

The 2010 Darfield earthquake caused extensive damage to a number of unreinforced
masonry buildings. While this damage to important heritage buildings was the largest …

To address concerns regarding the seismic vulnerability of New Zealand unreinforced
masonry (URM) buildings, a research program was undertaken to investigate the …

New Zealand's stock of unreinforced masonry (URM) bearing wall buildings was principally
constructed between 1880 and 1935, using fired clay bricks and lime or cement mortar …

Masonry material characteristics such as compression stress-strain behavior and the
relationships between brick, mortar, and masonry compressive strengths are required for the …

This research presents an experimental programme on the mechanical characterization of
masonry under monotonic and cyclic uniaxial compression. Two different types of standard …

A brief history of Christchurch city is presented, including information on the introduction of
unreinforced masonry as a popular building material and an estimate of the number of …

Nepal is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, and at the same time is
one of the most economically deprived. On 25 April 2015 mid-western Nepal was hit by the …

Heritage masonry buildings are particularly vulnerable to earthquakes because they are
deteriorated and damaged, they were built with materials with low resistance, they are heavy …

The development of cost effective and minimally-invasive seismic retrofit techniques is
required for clay brick unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings because of their poor …