H. R. Khoshnoud - faculty of civil engineering university of tech of malaysia johor
A. K. Marsono - faculty of civil engineering university of tech of malaysia johor

reinforced concrete frame building with masonry infill walls is one of the popular structural systems in the world . In the most cases the effects of masonry infill walls have been not considered in the structual model . Typically masonry infill walls in RC frame buildings operate like diagonalcompression struts which participate inlateral resisting system in this paper the effects of masonry infill walls is considered on seismic response of whole building in RC frame with open ground story.

masonry infill wall , pushover analysis, performance based design