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Worldwide cultural heritage and especially the heritage buildings in Europe are masonry buildings. Such buildings are generally capable to resist vertical loads but horizontal earthquake actions are often critical. The strengthening upgrade is generally required. One of the most promising methods for the strengthening of masonry walls is application of fibre reinforced polymers (FRP) to the surface of the wall. Three sets of the experimental research were performed recently with new innovative configurations of the fibre reinforcement placement on clay brick masonry. Within the framework of European FP7 research project PERPETUATE two sets of in-situ experiments were performed on 12 walls, belonging to two buildings approximately one hundred years old. Both buildings were made of solid bricks in low strength mortar. Third set of tests was performed in the laboratory on 16 specimens made of contemporary solid bricks in good lime-cement mortar. Tests were performed with different reinforcement configurations. Carbon FRP strips were epoxy-bonded horizontally, diagonally or combined (horizontally and vertically). Glass FRP grids were placed in the modified cement mortar over the entire surface of the wall. Specimens were tested under the constant vertical load and by a displacement controlled horizontal cyclic loading. The carbon fibre reinforced polymer strengthening significantly increased the ultimate displacement capacity in case of the horizontal and combined strengthening. The diagonal strengthening was not so effective because the failure of the diagonally strengthened specimens was governed by the peeling of strips from the masonry. The GFRP grid configuration greatly increased the load bearing capacity but not also the ultimate displacement. The shear strength of the strengthened and un-strengthened specimens was compared to the calculated values of the seismic shear load bearing capacity. For that the Triantafillou (J Compos Constr 2(2):96–104, 1998), Triantafillou and Antonopoulos (J Compos Constr ASCE 4(4):198–205, 2000), Marcari et al. (2011) and Wang et al. (Asian J Civil Eng Build Hous 7(6): 563–580, 2006) calculation models and the design guides ACI 440.7R-10 (2010) and CNR-DT 200/2004 were used.
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The results in-situ tests have been achieved in the project PERPETUATE (www.perpetuate.eu), funded by the European Commission in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013), under Grant Agreement \(\hbox {n}^{\circ }\) 244229.
The results of laboratory tests were funded by the Ministry of higher education, research and technology of Republic of Slovenia under Grant No. Z2-3411.
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Jarc Simonič, M., Gostič, S., Bosiljkov, V. et al. In-situ and laboratory tests of old brick masonry strengthened with FRP in innovative configurations and design considerations. Bull Earthquake Eng 13, 257–278 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-014-9644-7
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