TY - JFULL AU - Ji鈥揥ook Mauk and Yu鈥揝uk Kim and Hyung鈥揓oon Kim PY - 2015/3/ TI - Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Frames Infilled by Masonry Walls with Different Heights T2 - International Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering SP - 157 EP - 161 VL - 9 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10000612 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 98, 2015 N2 - This study carried out comparative seismic performance of reinforced concrete frames infilled by masonry walls with different heights. Partial and fully infilled reinforced concrete frames were modeled for the research objectives and the analysis model for a bare reinforced concrete frame was also established for comparison. Non–linear static analyses for the studied frames were performed to investigate their structural behavior under extreme seismic loads and to find out their collapse mechanism. It was observed from analysis results that the strengths of the partial infilled reinforced concrete frames are increased and their ductilities are reduced, as infilled masonry walls are higher. Especially, reinforced concrete frames with higher partial infilled masonry walls would experience shear failures. Non–linear dynamic analyses using 10 earthquake records show that the bare and fully infilled reinforced concrete frame present stable collapse mechanism while the reinforced concrete frames with partially infilled masonry walls collapse in more brittle manner due to short-column effects. ER -