developing and evaluation a new discrete macro-element for modeling and nonlinear analyzing of unreinforced masonry walls

Seismic studies of both existing and newly designed unreinforced masonry buildings, which have various material characteristics as well as different construction techniques around the world, have led to nonlinear analysis with rather complicated and different features caused by uncertainties (mobarake et al., 2017).the purpose of this paper is to characterize a new analytical platform for practical applications in recent seismic studies of the unreinforced masonry buildings. the proposed platform, as a practice-oriented approach, was fashioned based on introducing a two-dimensional discrete macro-element, which is simply adapted to load on most structural analysis software. the proposed platform comprises of a two-dimensional basic macro-element for modeling the piers.