2nd Croatian Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2CroCEE

The importance of accurate seismic assessment of masonry infills has been recognized after their high seismic vulnerability led to severe damages during past earthquakes. In this study, the out-of-plane behaviour of an existing masonry infill typology is characterized through experimental and numerical investigations with the aim of proposing improved formulations to assess its out-of-plane capacity and seismic demand parameters. The experimental program consisted of pseudo static in-plane cyclic tests and out-of-plane dynamic shake table tests on full scale single storey single bay infill specimens. Based on the experimental results, a numerical model is developed and validated to conduct parametric studies.