SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR OF NEW CONCRETE BLOCK MASONRY BUILDINGS

In the last years the design of seismic resistant masonry buildings has used mainly experimental approaches for the evaluation and assessment of the seismic response of these structures. In the literature is possible to find an important amount of related research. It is found that due to cost, feasibility and good agreement with real cases most of the experimental tests have been performed on masonry elements, for instance, individual walls by means of cyclic tests assuming the in-plane failure mode as the governing behaviour. The Present work aims to evaluate the seismic behaviour of masonry buildings implemented a new construction system by means of dynamic testing on entire buildings using shaking table, attained more accurate results i