In the practice of engineering design, the presence of masonry infill in framed structures of reinforced concrete buildings is considered only as a infill component or partition of an ambiente, in other words, the masonry infill is considered as a non-structural purpose element. Although the masonry be treated as a non-structural component, they are connected to the structural system, therefore is expected that they exert some influence in the behavior of the structure still their stiffening effects in buildings have normally been ignored by design engineers. The focus of this research is assess the masonry infill influence in the lateral stiffness of reinforced concrete tall buildings located in Belém (PA). For this purpose, the ambient vibration of two buildings was measured with accelerometers in order to determine their natural frequency. In addition, computational models of the buildings were made to assess the influence of the infill panels using equivalent diagonal strut method and considering the infill panels as shell elements. The principal comparisons between the computational models and experimental results were based on mode of vibration and natural frequency of the buildings. Significant global stiffness of building based on experimental frequency suggest that model more realistic is the model with infill panels modelled as shell elements.
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