Recent Findings and Open Issues concerning the Seismic Behaviour of Masonry Infill Walls in RC Buildings

Table 1

Literature review of IP experimental tests of infill walls depending on infill material typology: subset of tests on 1-bay 1-storey frames infilled without opening (adapted from [4]).

Author	Number of tests	Masonry unit	Scale factor
Aly and Mooty [27]	2	Solid clay unit	1 : 2
Akhoundi et al. [28]	1	Hollow clay unit	1 : 2
Al-Chaar et al. [29]	2	Solid clay unit-solid concrete unit	1 : 2
Angel et al. [13]	7	Solid clay unit-solid concrete unit	1 : 2
Baran and Sevil [30]	3	Hollow clay unit	1 : 3
Basha and Kaushik [31]	4	Solid fly ash unit	1 : 2
Bergami and Nuti [32]	2	Hollow clay unit	1 : 2
Calvi and Bolognini [33]	2	Hollow clay unit	1 : 1
Cavaleri and Di Trapani [34]	12	Hollow clay or concrete unit-solid calcarenite unit	1 : 2
Centeno et al. [35]	1	Hollow concrete unit	1 : 2
Chiou and Hwang [36]	2	Solid clay unit	1 : 1
Colangelo [37]	11	Hollow clay unit	1 : 2
Combescure and Pegon [38]	4	Hollow clay unit	2 : 3
Gazic and Sigmund [39]	10	Hollow clay unit-solid clay unit	1 : 2
Guidi et al. [40]	2	Hollow clay unit	1 : 1
Haider [41]	3	Hollow clay unit	1 : 1
Hashemi and Mosalam [42]	1	Solid clay unit	1 : 1
Kakaletsis and Karayannis [26]	2	Hollow clay unit-vitrified clay unit	1 : 3
Khoshnoud and Marsono [43]	1	Solid clay unit	1 : 4
Kyriakides and Billington [44]	1	Solid clay unit	1 : 5
Lafuente and Molina [45]	10	Solid clay unit	1 : 3
Mansouri et al. [46]	1	Solid clay unit	1 : 2
Mehrabi et al. [47]	11	Solid or hollow concrete unit	1 : 2
Misir et al. [48]	4	Hollow clay unit-solid AAC unit-hollow pomice unit	4 : 5
Morandi et al. [49]	1	Hollow clay unit	1 : 1
Parducci and Checchi [50]	6	Hollow clay unit	1 : 2
Pereira et al. [51]	1	Hollow clay unit	2 : 3
Pires [52]	6	Hollow clay unit	2 : 3
Schwarz et al. [53]	5	Solid AAC unit	1 : 2
Sigmund and Penava [54]	1	Hollow clay unit	1 : 2
Shing et al. [55]	1	Solid clay unit	2 : 3
Stylianidis [56]	11	Hollow clay unit	1 : 3
Suzuki et al. [57]	2	Hollow concrete unit	1 : 4
Verderame et al. [58]	2	Hollow clay unit	1 : 2
Waly [59]	2	Hollow clay unit	1 : 2
Yuksel and Teymur [60]	1	Hollow clay unit	1 : 2
Zarnic and Tomaževič [61]	1	Semisolid clay unit	1 : 3
Zhai et al. [62]	1	Hollow concrete unit	1 : 1
Zovkic et al. [63]	3	Hollow clay unit-solid AAC unit	1 : 2