One is a masonry-infilled RC building with openings (the openings ratio of masonry infill wall is between 24% and 51%) and the other is an RC building without masonry infill. In view of this, this study conducts two in-situ pushover tests of reinforced concrete (RC) buildings.
However, if in-situ pushover tests can be performed on full-size structures, then the seismic behaviors of buildings during earthquakes can be grasped. However, to build a new full-size building for the test is not economical, consequently scholars around the world usually make scale structures or full-scale component units to be tested in the laboratory.
The in-situ pushover test differs from the shake-table test because it is performed outdoors and thus its size is not restricted by space, which allows us to test a full-size building. Chun-Ting Huang, Tsung-Chih Chiou, Lap-Loi Chung, Shyh-Jiann Hwang and Wen-Ching Jaung
