quasi-static shear-compression tests on six rubble stone masonry walls

Stone-masonry works are among the most vulnerable structures to earthquakes, especially the typology a (mit, 2009), which are the walls constructed with uncut stones and pebbles with irregular arrangement. recently, a database of quasi-static cyclic tests on stone-masonry walls that were publicly available has been published (vanin et al., 2017). in the database there are only a few results available for the typology a. to be more specific, there is only one data pointfrom this typology in the database used to build the proposed empirical drift capacity model (vanin et al., 2017). to contribute to the available database and to get a better understanding of the cyclic performance of stone-masonry walls of typology a with two leaves, six large scale shear-compression tests have been conducted at epfl. the specimens havethe same typology and dimensions (height = 1600 mm, length = 1600 mm and thickness = 40 mm). to represent old buildings, lime mortar with the aggregate/binder ratio of 3/1 is used. figure 1 illustrates the specimens and the test setup.