Therefore, a decreasing trend of equivalent viscous damping of both samples was observed.
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Seismic performance evaluation of plastered cellular lightweight concrete (CLC) block masonry walls.
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The shear failure dissipates more energy, due to which the graph shows an increasing trend, while in later cycles, the magnitude of imposed displacement was increased, which compressed the weak masonry units and did not allow to dissipate much energy.