Effect of Location of Infills on Performance of Reinforced Concrete Framed Structure

Infilled frames have sustained the curiosity of researchers for a long period but they have been unable to carve a place in the codes of practices of any country. Masonry wall impart substantial amount of stiffness and strength to a building frame and used in the structures for architectural or aesthetic reasons, have been normally considered has non-structural elements and their presence has been ignored by engineers. The performance of structure can be greatly enhanced by the increase of strength arising from the masonry infill. Infill frames are widely constructed using brick masonry infill walls. The primary objective of this study is to present a general review of the performance of reinforced concrete frame structures with and without the presence of infills at different locations in the entire building models that include bare frame, building with infills around periphery and buildings with 100% infills. Masonry infills are modeled by equivalent diagonal strut method and the software ETABS is used for the study of all the RC frame models.