Abstract:

Four groups of shaking table tests were done to research the out of plane performance of  two-story infill walls,  with different connections between the beams and the walls. It included rigid connection, flexible connection, flexible connection filled with mortar and absolutely disjointed four ways. The results showed  that the walls with flexible connection and flexible connection filled with mortar behave much better than the walls with rigid connection, while the sesimic performance of the walls with rigid connection are worse than the others.
 

Key words: infill wall, flexible connection, shaking table, seismic performance