Shake-table testing of full-scale URM walls developing one-way out-of-plane bending mechanisms (EUC-OOP-1WB)

This dataset contains acceleration and displacement recordings from incremental dynamic out-of-plane tests on four full-scale unreinforced masonry (URM) wall specimens. Three specimens were made of cavity walls (where the two leaves were connected through steel ties), while one consisted of a single-leaf calcium-silicate wall. The walls were subjected to out-of-plane excitations to induce a one-way bending mechanism. These tests were conducted under double-fixed boundary conditions, applying equal accelerations at the top and bottom ends.

The shake-table tests were conducted in 2015 at the SHAKELAB testing facilities of the EUCENTRE in Pavia, Italy. They were part of the EUCENTRE Foundation project 'Study of the vulnerability of masonry buildings in Groningen', within the research framework programme on hazard and risk of induced seismicity in the Groningen province, sponsored by the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV (NAM). The project was carried out in collaboration with the research group of Masonry Structures from the University of Pavia in Italy.