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2023-1-27

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Aktaş, Saime Selin

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Unreinforced infill walls are widely used non-structural elements in structures worldwide for architectural and engineering disciplines. The seismic capacity and response of unreinforced infill walls have been ignored until realizing the importance of these members during many seismic events and their aftermaths. Thus, the out-of-plane behavior of infill walls has become a topic that has been popular to investigate in the last decades for civil engineers especially. Although different infill materials are used to construct, traditional clay brick is the most preferred infill material. However, as new infill materials are discovered and developed, improving knowledge has become a necessity for different infill materials. Pumice concrete blocks are one of the popular infill materials used in recent years. This infill material is chosen due to its high thermal insulation, aesthetic concerns, and acoustic advantages. However, its seismic behavior, one of the characteristics of the pumice concrete infill walls, has not been discussed in detail in the literature. This study focuses on the out-of-plane behavior of clay brick and pumice concrete infill walls and their comparison. In addition, the presence of openings and different opening sizes were simulated for both clay brick and pumice concrete infill walls and tested under out-of-plane loading. Demand and design thickness estimation for both clay brick and pumice concrete infill walls were investigated for different spectral accelerations and story numbers of reinforced concrete structures.

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Infill walls, Out-of-plane, Experimental study, Yield line analysis, Seismic behavior

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/102546

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis