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Force–displacement relationship modelling of masonry infill walls with openings in hinged steel frames

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The seismic behaviour of masonry infilled frames has attracted extensive attention from researchers, and it was found that infills normally experienced a diagonal compression under lateral loading. The infill was therefore assumed as an equivalent diagonal strut in structural response estimations of infilled frames, and a force–displacement curve was adopted to describe the mechanical properties of the strut. However, in the development of the force–displacement relationship of infills, the influences of infill aspect ratio, vertical load acting on the surrounding frames, and opening were not systematically addressed. In the present study, detailed three-dimensional finite element models of masonry infilled hinged steel frames are developed in ABAQUS, and a wide parametric study is carried out to investigate the effects of aspect ratio, vertical load, and opening size and location on the lateral stiffness and strength of infill walls. A generalized force–displacement relationship model of infill walls is proposed based on regression analyses of numerical results. The efficacy of the proposed model is examined by using the existing experimental test results, and it shows that the model can accurately predict the lateral stiffness and load-carrying capacity of infill walls and thus has great potential applications in structural designs and analyses for masonry infilled steel frames.

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The financial support from the Research Project of Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 19DZ1202400) for carrying out this research is highly appreciated.

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    Haoran Zuo, Weiping Zhang, Baotong Wang & Xianglin Gu

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Zuo, H., Zhang, W., Wang, B. et al. Force–displacement relationship modelling of masonry infill walls with openings in hinged steel frames. Bull Earthquake Eng 20, 349–382 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-021-01234-6

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