Abstract
This paper elaborates the study of the effect of infill walls in the seismic response of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings. For this study it has been used a typical 9 story RC building, considering three different lateral bearing systems, (frame type—FT, wall type—WT, and a dual type–DT). Further on, this study includes the consideration of two types of infill wall systems (IW1, IW2) that are more vastly applied in engineering practice, and one inventive wall system (IW3). The main analysis technique used for this study was pushover analysis with and without P-Delta effect. This paper aims at demonstrating, qualitatively and quantitatively, the effect of different infill walls in different lateral bearing structural systems.
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