Experimental Studies on Performance of Geo-synthetic Strengthened Brick Masonry Infill

The behaviors of masonry infill under the action of sudden disasters are highly unpredictable. Infill is very strong and behaves better under the action of gravity loads because of its strong nature under compression but it shows versatile behavior under shear. In any kinds of high rise buildings infill actions are ignored in design but contribution of infill under lateral loads are highly significant. The infill contributes to strength and stiffness of frames under lateral forces and also the interfaces between frame and infill are fails because of its weak bond. Several researchers studied the significance of strengthening of masonry infill and stated that significance of strengthening under flexure and shear. In this present paper an experimental work has been presented on two different types of Geo-synthetics strengthened to brick masonry infill and results are compared with unreinforced conventional masonry infill elements. The results shown the better performance in load carrying capacity and also in flexure and shear compared with conventional specimens.