Serviceability limit state related to excessive lateral deformations to account for infill walls in the structural model

Brazilian Codes NBR 6118 and NBR 15575 provide practical values for interstory drift limits applied to conventional modeling in order to prevent negative effects in masonry infill walls caused by excessive lateral deformability, however these codes do not account for infill walls in the structural m...

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Main Authors: G. M. S. ALVA, J. KAMINSKI Jr, G. MOHAMAD, L. R. SILVA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Brasileiro do Concreto (IBRACON)
Series:Revista IBRACON de Estruturas e Materiais
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