ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an experimental program concerning the analysis of the mechanical behaviour of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer-to-masonry reinforcements applied to masonry panels loaded by out-of-plane cyclic actions. The practice of consolidation techniques based on the use of composite materials as reinforcement of concrete and masonry structures, is more and more widespread in the structural rehabilitation and retrofitting of existing buildings. Ready premixed mortar made with lime and cement as binder was employed in the experimental campaign because it exhibits characteristics similar to those of lime mortar usually employed in historic buildings and traditional architecture, where reinforcement techniques are mainly used for retrofitting and adaptation to standards of structural capacity. Since the early stages of the tests, the specimens showed a crack pattern widespread in the zone of the panel without reinforcement: actually the specimens behaved as two simple-supported parallel beams, corresponding to the reinforced portions of the panels.
