Improving recovery of hybrid rocking walls through locally heat-treated replaceable bars for hysteretic energy dissipation

•Hybrid rocking wall (HRW) systems have been shown to behave satisfactorily under lateral seismic loads.•However, inspection and replacement of the energy dissipating bars used in HRWs may not be economically achieved after earthquake events.•This paper presents a new design concept for HRWs utilizi...

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