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Figure B.26
Corner damage observed during the 1999 North Athens (Greece) earthquake: large vertical separation
(
left
) and total collapse (
right
)
Figure B.27
Damage observed in non-structural walls of unreinforced masonry buildings: cracks along joint beds
and through the masonry units in the brick facade of the Broadway Store in the 1994 Northridge (California) earth-
quake (
left
) and global buckling of slender brick wall in a private house during the 1999 North Athens (Greece)
earthquake (
right
) (
courtesy of
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering, University of California,
Berkeley) Reproduced from: Left: Image: Karl V. Steinbrugge Collection: S2073 URL: http://nisee.berkeley.
edu/elibrary/
• Diagonal cracking through masonry units or the bed joints;
• Sliding along bed joints;
• Global buckling of slender and unrestrained masonry walls;
• Local crushing at corners;
• Overturning due to out - of - plane loading.
