Seismic Analysis on Masonry Structures Strengthened with Reinforced Concrete Splint

Strengthening the brick walls with reinforced concrete splint is a conventional and effective method of strengthening masonry structures. To the method, the text process and analysis of 6 brick walls strengthened with reinforced concrete splint and the existing calculation analysis method about bearing capacity are introduced in this paper. Through the series of low-cycle repeated load experiments, we study the different performance between unreinforced brick wall and brick wall strengthened with reinforced concrete splint. Based on the analysis, we find the seismic capacity of the brick wall strengthened with reinforced concrete splint such as the bearing capacity and ductility is enhanced clearly. Meanwhile, the calculation parameter in technical specification for seismic strengthening of buildings has good accordance with the experiment results.