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 …

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

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

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 …

Implementing seismic risk mitigation programmes for earthquake-prone unreinforced
masonry buildings (URM) is critical to ensure public safety and community resilience in …

Deep energy retrofit can improve historic buildings' indoor environmental quality and protect
them from decay and obsolescence while reducing their energy use and related …

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 …