This paper presents the results of a series of shake-table tests on a half-scale, four-storey
building with reinforced concrete and unreinforced masonry walls. Due to the lack of …

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, the progressive and rapid spread of reinforced
concrete (RC) has led to the adoption of mixed masonry-RC solutions, such as the confined …

There is a significant building stock of post-WWII low-and mid-rise unreinforced masonry
(URM) buildings in Serbia and the region (former Yugoslavia). Numerous buildings of this …

The present paper discusses similitude laws employed for the shaking-table tests of
masonry structures with flexible diaphragms. Two tasks are tackled. First, the paper presents …

The past reconstruction processes that took place after important earthquakes, and the
development and progressive use of reinforced concrete (RC) since the beginning of the …

In several seismic countries, residential buildings are constructed using both reinforced
concrete (RC) and unreinforced masonry (URM) walls. Despite their popularity, there is a …

Modern unreinforced masonry buildings with reinforced concrete slabs are often retrofitted
by inserting reinforced concrete walls. The main advantages of this technique are the …

The use of reinforced concrete (RC) in retrofitting interventions on existing unreinforced
masonry (URM) buildings has been spreading all over the world since the beginning of the …

In Switzerland many new residential buildings are designed as mixed structures with
unreinforced masonry (URM) walls and reinforced concrete (RC) walls while existing URM …

Based on materials and structural systems for load transfer, buildings may be classified as
load bearing masonry structures, reinforced concrete (RC), steel frame structures and hybrid …