Wall-Diaphragm Connection Assessment Guidelines for URM Buildings.

• Main Authors: Abdul Razak, Abdul Karim, Quenneville, Pierre, Norazzlina, M.Sa'don, Ingham, Jason M.
• Format: Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31705/1/Wall-Diaphragm%20Connection%20Assessment%20Guidelines%20for%20URM%20Buildings.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/31705/

The connections between walls and diaphragm in unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings typically consist of two major parts. The first part is the wall anchorages and the second part is the diaphragm connections. From the NZNSEE (1995) and FEMA (2006) guidelines, the connection strength values given...