Strength Assessment of Typical Wall-Diaphragm Connections in New Zealand URM Buildings

• Main Authors: Abdul Razak, Abdul Karim, Quenneville, Pierre, Norazzlina, M.Sa‘don, Ingham, Jason M.
• Other Authors: El-Dakhakhi;, Wael W
• Format: Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: McMaster University 2009
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31702/1/STRENGTH%20ASSESSMENT%20OFTYPICAL%20WALL-DIAPHRAGM%20CONNECTIONS%20IN%20NEW%20ZEALAND%20UNREINFORCED%20MASONRYBUILDINGS.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31702/

Most unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings in New Zealand consist of solid URM bearing walls and flexible timber diaphragms (floor and roof), and insufficient or absent positive anchorage between URM walls and diaphragms has previously been identified to be the most common reason for out-of-plane wal...