1 VARIABILITY OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CELLULAR LIGHTWEIGHT 1 CONCRETE INFILL AND ITS EFFECT ON SEISMIC SAFETY 2 3 Nikhil P. Zade 1 ; Avadhoot Bhosale 2 , Prateek Kumar Dhir 3* ; Pradip Sarkar 4 ; and Robin Davis 5 4 5 1 Ph. D Scholar, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha 6 769008, India, Email: [email protected]. 7 2 Department of Civil Engineering, Madanapalle Institute of Technology & Science, Madanapalle, Andhra 8 Pradesh 517325, India, Email: [email protected]. 9 3* Ph. D. Scholar at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Strathclyde, 10 Glasgow, UK, Email: [email protected] (corresponding author) 11 4 Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Rourkela, Odisha 769008, 12 India, Email: [email protected]. 13 5 Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Calicut, NIT 14 Campus P.O 673 601, Kozhikode, India, Email: [email protected]. 15 16 Variability of mechanical properties of cellular lightweight concrete infill and its effect on seismic safety This is a peer-reviewed, accepted author manuscript of the following article: Zade, N. P., Bhosale, A., Dhir, P., Sarkar, P., & Davis, R. (2021). Variability of mechanical properties of cellular lightweight concrete infill and its effect on seismic safety. Natural Hazards Review. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)NH.1527-6996.0000501