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Many masonry structures collapsed or were severely damaged during the recent destructive earthquakesoccurred in worldwide. This paper evaluates the review study of various researchers on seismic performance of masonrybuildings during the earthquakes and behaviour of masonry buildings under seismic action. The traditional masonrybuildings without any earth quake resisting features have proved to be the most vulnerable to earthquake forces and hadsuffered maximum damage in past earthquakes. Therefore, it is necessary that realistic stone masonry houses as arebeing constructed in rural and hilly regions should be tested dynamically for evaluating various seismic strengtheningmeasures in order to prove their effectiveness. Most of masonry buildings were formed with random or coursed stoneand mud brick walls without any reinforcement. Many of these buildings were damaged or had collapsed. The crackingand failure patterns of the buildings are examined and interpreted according to current provisions for earthquakeresistance of masonry structures. Masonry being a brittle material will undergo sudden failure under lateral loadscausing large amount of damage to human life and property. Therefore to make the masonry ductile it has to bereinforced with a material that gives warning before failure and resists damage. The present paper makes a review onseismic performance of reinforced masonry structures.

Pulkit Gupta, Dr. Suresh Singh Sankhla, “A Review Study on Performance of Stone Masonry Building Under Earthquake”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 45-50, February 2018.