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Wall systems are an essential part of the buildings and their capacity can be used in designing the structures. However, the seismic behavior of building systems with infilled walls has not been well understood. Implementation ofinfilled walls in the buildings without including them in the design process, changes the failure mechanism and the whole behavior of the structural system against earthquakes. On the other hand, there has been extensive research on rehabilitation of structures with infilled walls,or designing them as the main or one of the lateral load carrying systems against earthquake excitations. In this study, the existing 3-D Panel’s details as the infilled wall of a...