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Confined masonry construction has been accomplished through an unceremonious process based on its optimal performance in past earthquakes . Confined masonry construction was commenced in Mexico in the 1940s to limit the wall cracking caused by massive differential settlements under the soft soil conditions. Several years later, this system became popular in other regions of Mexico due to its worthy earthquake performance . Confined masonry construction consists of masonry walls along with horizontal and vertical RC confining members, which are construct on all sides of a masonry wall panel. Vertical members are usually called tie-columns & resemble columns in RC frame construction except that they tend to be of far smaller in cross-section. Horizontal elements are called tie-beams, resemble beams in RC frame construction. (BRZEV, December, 2007) The confining members are usually operative in Improving the stability of masonry walls for in-plane and out-of-plane earthquake forc