Seismic Fragility Evaluation of Lightly Reinforced Concrete-Block Shear Walls for Probabilistic Risk Assessment

With the North American seismic codes moving toward adopting performance-based seismic design (PBSD) approaches, there is a need to develop seismic probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) tools for different construction systems, including reinforced masonry (RM). The current study focuses on the development of analytical fragility curves based on the performance of RM walls tested under base excitation generated by a shake table. The study has two …