Dear All,
Textile reinforced mortar is a commonly know seismic retrofit for enhancing the shear strength of in-plane loaded unreinforced masonry.
The diagonal tensile strength of the masonry will be increased, as well as the bed joint sliding strength of the wall. The bottom bed joint however still usually still unreinforced. I can therefor imagine that the shear sliding strength as well as the rocking strength of the wall is more or less the same as the unreinforced wall. How is this accounted for in practice? Is a TRM-retrofit therefor not applicable to rocking or sliding dominated walls?
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