Behaviour of brick infill walls strengthened with expanded steel plates

An experimental and numerical study on CLT panels used as infill shear walls for RC buildings retrofit

“…corresponds to the diagonal shear strength of masonry panels, in Table 6 a comparison in terms of !̅ 3%! between common masonry infill panels, masonry infill panels strengthened with expanded steel plates and CLT infill panels is reported [48]. As expected, the CLT panels with metal shoe have showed the highest value, with an increase of about 25% respect to that obtained from the strengthened masonry panels (see Table 6).…”