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The results demonstrated a significant improvement in both the shear capacity and pseudo-ductility of the strengthened URM walls compared to their unstrengthened counterparts. The primary conclusions drawn from this research are as follows: (1) the maximum strain in the vertical GFRP strips increased with the higher axial stiffness of the strips; (2) the discrete vertical strips contributed substantially to enhancing the shear capacity and pseudo-ductility of the URM walls; (3) increasing the axial stiffness of the vertical strips can alter the failure mode of the walls, shifting it from joint failure to tension or compression failure of the blocks or bricks; (4) a reduction factor is necessary to account for the potential asymmetrical performance of double-sided strengthening schemes applied to URM walls. 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