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Materials Considerations Regarding Rain Penetration in Historic Fired Clay Brick Masonry
Conservar Património, 2008 Moisture is a major source of damage in historic massive masonry. Therefore control of moisture movement in masonry is instrumental to the durability of masonry buildings.
Caspar Groot, Jos Gunneweg
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Semi Interlocking Masonry as Infill Wall System for Earthquake Resistant Buildings: A Review
The Journal of Engineering Research, 2016 Masonry is one of the most popular building materials. It has many excellent material properties and proven durability. Over time, masonry structures have evolved from massive walls, which work mainly through compression, to more slender walls, which ...
Y. Totoev, A. Al Harthy
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Buildings, 2023 Energy efficiency renovation of building stock is an essential aspect of the climate change mitigation strategies in many countries. A large proportion of building stock is historical buildings.
Ritvars Freimanis +4 more
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Building technique of the Theater at ancient Messene
Japan Architectural Review, 2021 This paper reports and examines the building techniques of the recently excavated Messene Theater in Greece. In the Hellenistic period, both traditional building materials (poros and limestone) and methods (masonry, jointing, and transportation) were ...
Ryuichi Yoshitake
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Non-Linear Seismic Analysis of Masonry Buildings [PDF]
, 2010 Non-linear analysis is the most viable tool to get accurate predictions of the actual response of masonry structures under earthquake loading. Analytical methods based on the idealisation of masonry walls with openings as systems of macro-elements allow ...
Parisi, Fulvio
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Comparison of seismic models for a historic masonry building
Revista UIS Ingenierías, 2018 In this project, a historic masonry building in Sardinia, Italy has been considered as a case study for the comparison of two approaches for modeling, static and seismic analysis.
Manuel Saba, Daniel Meloni
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Buildings, 2023 Every year, a massive amount of natural materials are subjected to high temperatures during cement production, resulting in 5% to 8% of total global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Eric A. Ohemeng +2 more
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Journal of Industrial Design and Engineering Graphics, 2019 The main goal of this paper is to highlight the vulnerability during the life time of kula buildings from Oltenia and Muntenia Regions from Romania. This research highlights the characteristic features of massive kula type buildings by masonry built ...
Anca Mihaela Barbu +4 more
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Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2015 In order to generate possible scenarios about future developments of massive constructions, this paper explains the developmental paths on the basis of individual materials of clay/brick as well as concrete/lightweight concrete/aerated concrete and sand ...
Ulrich Knaack
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Seismic Evaluation and Strengthening of an Existing Masonry Building in Sarajevo, B&H
Buildings, 2019 A significant number of old unreinforced load-bearing masonry (URM) buildings exist in many countries worldwide, but especially in Europe. In particular, Bosnia and Herzegovina has an important stock of masonry buildings constructed from the 1920s until ...
Naida Ademović +2 more
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