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Blast Upgrade of Ballistic and Non-Ballistic Resistance Masonry Walls with FRP: Phase II
Recent world events have illustrated that sustainability of buildings to blast loads is an ever increasing issue. Many older buildings contain unreinforced masonry (URM) infill walls. Due to their low flexural capacity and their brittle mode of failure, these walls have a low resistance to out-of-plane loads, including a blast load. As a result, an effort was undertaken to examine retrofit methods that are feasible to enhance their out-of-plane resistance. The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of coupling ballistic resistance materials with FRP to provide/develop an impact and blast resistant brick façade system with minimal debris scatter. Fig. 1 illustrates the laboratory test set-up for the control wall.