Abstract:Past and more recent seismic events worldwide clearly showed that a crucial issue for lifesafety and loss reduction due to earthquakes for existing reinforced concrete (RC) buildings is related to the out-of-plane (OOP) collapse of infill masonry walls. In literature, few studies addressed this paramount topic, above all about the proposal of strengthening strategies to prevent the infills' collapse. This paper presents an experimental work about the assessment of possible strengthening solutions designed to m… Show more
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