“…This method was also introduced to upgrade masonry structures by many researchers (El-Diasity et al, 2015;Elgawady et al, 2006;Holberg & Hamilton, 2012;Mosallam & Banerjee, 2011;Triantafillou, 1998;Turek et al, 2007) and proved to be an effective technique in terms of enhancing the lateral strength and stiffness. The bolted sideplating technique (Jiang et al, 2018;Li et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2017), as a feasible way to enhance both the shear and flexural capacities of RC members, may also have great potential in retrofitting masonry structures. Nevertheless, steel strips (Farooq, 2002;Rai, 1996) were found to be vulnerable to buckling in strengthening masonry walls.…”