Numerical Study on the In-Plane and Out-of-Plane Resistance of Brick Masonry Infill Panels in Steel Frames

Table 5

Seismic response comparison for the considered infill walls subjected to earthquake excitations with various frequency contents.

Specimen	Excitation		PGD (mm)	PGA (g)	= 1.0		= 0.75		= 0.6
					PWD (mm)	PWA (g)	PWD (mm)	PWA (g)	PWD (mm)	PWA (g)
Case  III	50%	Manjil	20.5	0.222	35.4	0.418	39.0	0.377	40.2	0.361
	75%	Manjil	30.8	0.332	51.7	0.425	56.1	0.371	59.7	0.369
	100%	Manjil	41.0	0.443	77.1	0.523	85.0	0.455	93.3	0.441
	150%	Manjil	61.5	0.665	80.1	0.463	Failure	NA	Failure	NA
Case  III	100%	Trinidad	8.9	0.194	13.5	0.256	14.1	0.241	14.1	0.241
	200%	Trinidad	17.7	0.387	30.7	0.297	31.7	0.310	33.5	0.286
	300%	Trinidad	26.6	0.581	44.0	0.369	47.9	0.329	50.7	0.313
	400%	Trinidad	35.5	0.774	52.8	0.334	57.3	0.327	58.3	0.315