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This paper focuses on the evaluation of the effect of masonry-infilled walls on the seismic response of a four-storey RC school building. Numerical simulation is presented with respect to the building with and without masonry-infilled walls. The simulation employed force-based fibre elements for beams and columns, and a single equivalent diagonal strut to represent the masonry infill. The numerical model was verified through comparison with shake table test results. It was found that the presence of masonry-infilled walls has significant influence on the global response of the structure. Although the displacement of the structure with infilled wall is reduced in the in-plane direction, it was increased in both in-plane and out-of-plane directions when the infilled walls experienced loss in serviceability.
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The work reported in this paper was funded by University of Malaya and the Ministry of Education (MOE), Malaysia, through research grants PV081/2011A and UM.C/625/1/HIR/MOHE/ENG/55. The visit of the first author to Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) from September 2011 to August 2012 was funded by UNESCO and the People’s Republic of China through UNESCO/China (The Great Wall) Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme. Special thanks are due to Dr. Wang Zhen-Yu, Dr. Yu Xiao-Hui and many other graduate students of School of Civil Engineering, HIT, for their guidance and assistance in the shake table tests.
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Tan, K.T., Abdul Razak, H., Lu, D. et al. Seismic response of a four-storey RC school building with masonry-infilled walls. Nat Hazards 78, 141–153 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-015-1706-x
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