Abstract

Masonry bond patterns can considerably affect the seismic performance of in-plane walls. Although several numerical and experimental works addressed this topic, few attempts tried to investigate such an issue using analytical formulations. This paper aims to compare macro and micro limit analysis models investigating masonry walls arranged with different bond types, namely Running, Flemish and English. A dataset involving 81 combinations is generated by varying geometrical (panel aspect ratio, block aspect ratio, bond type) and mechanical (friction coefficient) parameters. Finally, one-way and two-way factor interactions are used to evaluate how each parameter affects the horizontal load multiplier and assess matching among the two adopted formulations.

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