In situ full-scale tests for old masonry elements: The out-of-plane response

Before explain both testing campaign program and experimental data result, it is really important point out L’Aquila old masonry features.

L’Aquila built setting show several masonry typologies all closed into rubble masonry category (see Figure 2); but it follows that two of them are most representatives, respectively widespread in L’Aquila city and in the neighborhood (Giuffrè 1991).