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SwissRE to provide funding for training materials

Architect Tom Schacher of Switzerland, one of the core members of the Confined Masonry Network and co-chair of the current task on evaluating construction guidelines, has recently received funding from...

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Risk Management Solutions supports Network

Risk Management Solutions, a risk modeling company based in Newark, California, is supporting an initial phase of the Confined Masonry Network. At $50,000 grant is being used to support the development...

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Backbone Model for Confined Masonry Walls for Performance Based Seismic Design

Authors: Zahra Riahi, Kenneth J Elwood, S.M. Alcocer (Canada) Reference: J. Structural Engg., ASCE, June 2009 Summary: Performance based model is proposed on the basis of both monotonic and reversed...

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Rigid element model for in plane dynamics of masonry walls considering...

Authors: Siro Casolo,and Fernando Pena Reference: Earthquake Engg.and Structural Dynamics,Wiley Interscience, pp 1029-1048, Vol.36 -Feb.2007 Summary: Specific rigid element approach is propsosed for...

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Experimental and analytical studies on earthquake resisting behaviour of...

Authors: Norio Hori, Norio Inoue, Dangol Purushotam, Tetsuya Nishida and Jun Kobayashi (Japan) Reference:Earthquake Engg. and Structural Dynamics,Wiley Interscience, July,2006 Summary: Wall specimens...

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Seismic behaviour of Confined Masonry Walls

Authors: Miha Tomazevic and Iztok Klemenc Reference: Earthquake Engg.and Structural Dynamics,Wiley Interscience, March 1997 Summary: Rational method for modeling of seismic behaviour of CM walls has...

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Experimental and Numerical study of Confined Masonry Wall under Cyclic Loading

Authors: Miha Tomazevic and Iztok Klemenc Reference: Earthquake Engg.and Structural Dynamics,Wiley Interscience, March 1997 Summary: Experimental & Numerial simulation were carried out to...

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Masonry Shear Walls subjected to Cyclic Loading:Influence of Confinement and...

Authors: Jao P.Gouveia and Paulo B.Lourenco (Portugal) Reference: Tenth North American Masonry Conference, June 3-6, 2007, St Louis, Missouri, USA Summary: Experiments were conducted on masonry walls...

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Engineered design of masonry buildings:fifty years development in Europe

Authors: A W Hendry (Scotland) Reference: Struct.Engng Mater.2002;4:291-300 Summary: Essential problems of verall stabiltiy and safety and the design of walls in compression and lateral loads have been...

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Some aspects of Experimental Testing of seismic behaviour of masonry walls...

Authors: Miha Tomazevic Reference: ISET Journal of Earthquake Technology ,Dec.2000 Summary: In order to experimetnally simulate failure mechanism in masonry wals in buildings structural system, scale...

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Kanpur, India Workshop

An International Strategy Workshop on Promotion of Confined Masonry was organized at Kanpur (India) during 26-28 January 2008 by National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering (NICEE) at the...

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IIT Gandhinagar India Faculty and Student Housing

In the first widespread application of confined masonry in India, the new campus of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar is using confined masonry for its student hostels and faculty and...

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Explaining Confined Masonry

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Confined Masonry: A Viable Alternative for Haiti?

Download the presentation developed by Marcial Blondet of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú:  Confined-masonry-in-Haiti.

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Confined Masonry Construction Presentation at 14WCEE

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A Brief History of Confined Masonry

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Masonry Construction Around the World

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Key Components of Confined Masonry

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Confined Masonry Building Undamaged in the Nepal Earthquake

A two-storey confined masonry hostel with a 180 m2 footprint was exposed to the April 25, 2015 Nepal earthquake (M 7.8) and did not suffer any damage. The hostel is located at Bhandar Dhik (close to...

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16 WCEE Chile 2017

A special session Global implementation of confined masonry construction technology for seismic risk reduction: challenges and opportunities was held at 16WCEE in January 2017 (Santiago, Chile). The...

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