Resilience Evaluation of Seismically Detailed Reinforced Concrete-Block Shear Walls for Blast-Risk Assessment

The increased demand for resilient infrastructure under accidental or deliberate explosions has resulted in the urgent need to quantify the performance of both existing and new building components under such extreme loading events. The current study focuses on evaluating the resilience of reinforced masonry (RM) shear wall systems under blast, which is accomplished by quantifying the walls’ blast response in the out-of-plane direction and the …