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Assessment and Strengthening of Partitions in Buildings

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Infills; Infill walls; Masonry infills; Reinforced concrete infills

Introduction

Partitions in buildings are necessary architectural features that separate spaces in order to facilitate various functions that are required depending on the use of a building. These partitions in modern structures can be lightweight, for example, in case that they are used to subdivide office spaces, or can be heavy masonry partitions that are used mainly in reinforced concrete structures to subdivide the plan area of a building into various rooms. In the latter case, these are mostly built within the frame of the structure filling the gap, and they are therefore called infills or infill walls. Depending on the type of the material that is used to construct them, they can be called masonry infills or reinforced concrete (RC) infills.

Infill walls have attracted the attention of many researchers since the early 1950s, and much work has been undertaken to study their behavior and interaction with...

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Cyprus University of Technology, 3603, Limassol, Cyprus

    Christis Z. Chrysostomou

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Chrysostomou, C.Z. (2015). Assessment and Strengthening of Partitions in Buildings. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_208

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