“…Testing the impact of reinforcement on masonry shear walls dates back to the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, nearly 80 years after the first documented tests on unreinforced wall shearing performed by Bauschinger in 1873 [1] and 130 years after the first test on reinforced walls subjected to eccentric compressive loads [2]. The aims of tests on wall shearing that have been conducting until now are the verification of models adapted from concrete structures [3,4,5,6,7], practical estimation of the effects of different types of (metallic and nonmetallic) reinforcement [8,9], and masonry units and mortar types on important mechanical parameters of the masonry (crack resistance, load capacity, and deformability). Considering seismic actions, the reinforcement in stiffening walls is placed in bed joints and vertical cores [10,11,12,13] and nonmetallic reinforcements placed in a similar way are also employed [14,15,16].…”