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Panuwat Joyklad, Nazam Ali, Muhammad Usman Rashid, Qudeer Hussain, Hassan M. Magbool, Amr Elnemr and Krisada Chaiyasarn
Cement?clay Interlocking Hollow Brick Masonry (CCIHBM) walls are characterized by poor mechanical properties of bricks and mortar. Their performance is observed to be unsatisfactory under both gravity and seismic loads. There is an urgent need to develop...
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André Furtado, Hugo Rodrigues, António Arêde and Humberto Varum
Different retrofitting techniques have been developed and proposed to prevent the masonry infill walls (MIW) out-of-plane collapse. Many other authors confirmed that these types of elements are vulnerable when subjected to earthquake loadings, leading to...
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Roberto Fioretti and Paolo Principi
External walls made with hollow clay brick or block are widely used for their thermal, acoustic and structural properties. However, the performance of the bricks frequently does not conform with the minimum legal requirements or the values required for h...
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