Cyclic in-plane shear testing of unreinforced masonry walls with openings
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2015
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Allen, C.
Masia, M.
Page, A.
Griffith, M.
Derakhshan, H.
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Proceedings of the 10th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering: Building an Earthquake Resilient Pacific., 2015, pp.1-10
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C. Allen, M.J. Masia & A.W. Page, M.C. Griffith & H. Derakhshan
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10th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering (6 Nov 2015 - 8 Nov 2015 : Sydney, Australia)
Abstract
This paper presents the results to date of an experimental testing programme of unreinforced masonry (URM) walls subject to cyclic in-plane shear loading. The primary aim of this experimental program is to obtain force-displacement relationships for URM walls with openings and to understand the influence of wall geometry and vertical precompression on in-plane wall failure modes. The experimental programme consists of testing 12 full-scale wall specimens. These 12 walls consist of three geometrical configurations, two levels of pre-compression, and two repeats for each wall. To date, 10 of these 12 combinations have been successfully tested with the two remaining tests being repeats of walls previously tested.
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