This paper addresses the problem of assessing the seismic resistance of brick masonry
walls subject to out‐of‐plane bending. A simplified linearized displacement‐based …

Observations after strong earthquakes show that out-of-plane failure of unreinforced
masonry elements probably constitutes the most serious life-safety hazard for this type of …

The evaluation of the out‐of‐plane behaviour of unreinforced walls is one of the most
debated topics in the seismic assessment of existing masonry buildings. The discontinuous …

The paper presents a systematic assessment of a simplified procedure to evaluate the
response of unreinforced masonry walls subjected to out-of-plane seismic excitation. The …

This paper presents the results of static and dynamic tests on unreinforced brick masonry
wall panels subject to out-of-plane loading. Fourteen wall panels were tested. The test …

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Sponsored by the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit …

Existing unreinforced masonry buildings frequently suffer out-of-plane local collapse
mechanisms when undergoing earthquake ground motion. The energy damping that occurs …

This paper introduces a single degree-of-freedom analytical model which has been used by
the authors to investigate the out-of-plane performance of unreinforced masonry walls in …

Featured Application Numerical modelling and seismic capacity of dry-joint masonry
structures. Abstract Heritage masonry structures are often modelled as dry-jointed structures …

Investigated in this paper is the earthquake response of typical unreinforced masonry
façades of the historical centre of Gaeta, a town in Central Italy. The façades are assumed to …