A comparison study of numerical modeling approaches for simulating the in-plane seismic response of masonry walls: Comparing unreinforced masonry walls with masonry walls retrofitted with the bed-joint reinforcement technique

The extraction of natural gas in the northern part of the Netherlands, from the region of Groningen, has been causing human-induced seismic activities for the past several decades. This is a problem since the existing building stock in this region, which consists of mainly unreinforced masonry buildings and historical structures, are not...