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...Th world conference on earthquake engineering vancouver b c canada august paper no simulation of brick masonry wall behavior under in plane lateral loading using applied element method bishnu hari pandey kimiro meguro summary failure buildings is considered as the major cause large number casualties during past earthquakes around constructions are still practice even highly seismic regions understanding load important to develop proper mitigation measures existing for retrofitting and new construction setting design guidelines this attempt made apply a newly developed numerical tool aem analysis building structures with detailed process comprising crack occurrences their evolution block separation material loss before collapse study gives an insight into mechanics which not only strength assessment estimation maximum dissipation level but also identification weak point locations extent force transfer paths performance application evaluated available experimental results cyclic comparis...