GLOBAL BEHAVIOUR OF COUPLED UNREINFORCED MASONRY REINFORCED CONCRETE WALL STRUCTURES Universiteit Hasselt
This contribution deals with numerical investigations of hybrid unreinforced masonry- reinforced concrete wall structures (i.e. RC and URM walls coupled by reinforced concrete beams or slabs) used as horizontal stabilization systems. Although the combination of these materials is used as a bracing system in several countries, oversimplified design assumptions are often applied due to a lack of knowledge of the structural behavior of such ...