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Applied Sciences, 2019 Strengthening historical brick masonry walls is important because these walls are major load-bearing members in many architectural heritages. However, historical brick masonry has low elastic modulus and low strength, historical masonry walls are prone ...
Bin Peng +5 more
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Anisotropy Effect of Masonry on the Behaviour and Bearing Capacity of Masonry Walls
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2020 Firstly, an updated numerical model for the numerical analysis of planar unreinforced and confined masonry walls is presented. The model can simulate the main nonlinear material effects of masonry and reinforced concrete.
M. Smilović Zulim, J. Radnić
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Multiscale computational first order homogenization of thick shells for the analysis of out-of-plane loaded masonry walls [PDF]
, 2017 This work presents a multiscale method based on computational homogenization for the analysis of general heterogeneous thick shell structures, with special focus on periodic brick-masonry walls.
Camata, Guido +5 more
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Damage indicators for unreinforced masonry building walls subjected to seismic actions [PDF]
Građevinski Materijali i Konstrukcije, 2017 Energy dissipation and stiffness degradation are important seismic performance indicators within the numerical modelling of structures, and in this case particularly of masonry.
Ademović Naida, Oliveira Daniel V.
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, 2014 Masonry is a non-homogeneous material, composed of units and mortar, which can be of different types, with distinct mechanical properties. The design of both masonry units and mortar is based on the role of the walls in the building.
C Amadio +11 more
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Experimental Study on the Seismic Performance of Recycled Concrete Hollow Block Masonry Walls
Applied Sciences, 2019 This paper aims to manufacture recycled concrete hollow block (RCHB) which can be used for the masonry structure with seismic requirements. Five RCHB masonry walls were tested under cyclic loading to evaluate the effect of the axial compression stress ...
Chao Liu +4 more
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Compressive strength of masonry constructed with high strength concrete blocks
Revista IBRACON de Estruturas e Materiais, 2017 Although the use of high strength concrete blocks for the construction of tall buildings is becoming common in Brazil, their mechanical properties and behavior are not fully understood.
E. S. FORTES +3 more
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Masonry wall panels retrofitted with thermal-insulating GFRP-reinforced jacketing [PDF]
, 2015 Today there is a need to provide thermally efficient walls, while at the same time to increase the mechanical properties of old unreinforced masonry walls that will not require large amounts of energy in the retrofitting or deconstruction processes.
Belloni, Elisa +5 more
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Experimental Study on Seismic Strengthening of Confined Masonry Walls Using RPC
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2019 Masonry structures without effective reinforcement are vulnerable to seismic excitation. An innovative strengthening technique was proposed for damaged and undamaged masonry walls.
Xin Wang +4 more
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Parametrical study of masonry walls subjected to in-plane loading through numerical modeling [PDF]
, 2011 This paper deals with the numerical assessment of the influence of parameters such as pre-compression level, aspect ratio, vertical and horizontal reinforcement ratios and boundary conditions on the lateral strength of masonry walls under in-plane ...
Haach, V. +2 more
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