Wall Building- An Exercise Undertaken by First Year Architectural Students
Author PIERRE BALOSSO De Montfort University, Leicester Abstract Eighty first year students were taken directly to a site at the very beginning of their five to seven years at university. […]
The Use of Aircrete Blocks in Suspended Floors
Author C.A. FUDGE AND A.H. RIZA Kingsway Technology Limited Abstract In the late 1980s, investigations took place to examine the use of autoclaved aerated concrete (Aircrete) blocks used between precast […]
Influence of Mortar Type on the Long Term Deformation of Single Leaf Clay Brick Masonry
Author J.P. FORTH Metropolitan University of Leeds and J.J. BROOKS University of Leeds Abstract Creep and moisture movement strain test data after 300 days are presented for 13 course high […]
The Behaviour of Skewed Brickwork Arch Bridges
Author C. MELBOURNE Bolton Institute and J.A. HODGSON L.G. Mouchel and Partners seconded to Ballon Institute Abstract A series of test on skewed brickwork arch bridges is described and compared […]
The Behaviour of Open Spandrel Masonry Arch Bridges
Author C.MELBOURNE and H.TAO Bolton Institute Abstract The paper deals with the general behaviour of open spandrel arch bridges by using finite element methods. Several models and load cases are […]
Masonry Arch Design at the End of the 19th Century
Author A.W. HENDRY University of Edinburgh Abstract Perception of the structural behaviour of masonry arches dates back to the early 18th century and methods for the design of arch bridges […]
Cracking of Brickwork Shear Walls
Author SONGBO LI, A.N. FRIED AND J.J. ROBERTS Kingston University Abstract The test results from 59 brickwork wails under horizontal cyclic loading are examined and compared with the findings from […]
The Effect of Compressive Loads on the Load Capacity and Deformation of Brick Walls Subjected to Vertical Shear
Author JAN KUBICA Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland Abstract The behaviour of unreinforced brickwork subjected to shear in a direction normal to the bed joints is still not well understood. […]
Dry-stone walls
Author PETER WALKER University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia JOHN DICKENS University of Technology, Loughborough Abstract Dry-stone walls are an ancient and widespread form of masonry construction. In 1987 […]
Bond Strength of Bed Joints in Solid Concrete Block Masonry
Author DAVID M F ORR AND JOHN COSTELLOE, University College Cork Abstract A bond wrench apparatus has been developed for testing bed joints between solid concrete block masonry units. The […]
Flexural Behaviour of Masonry in Different Directions
Author ROB VAN DER PLUIJM, HARRY S. RUTTEN, AND COR S. SCHIEBROEK Eindhoven University of Technology Abstract The main variable in the experimental research with masonry wallettes tested in flexure, […]
Flexural and Shear Tests on Reinforced Vertically Perforated Clay Unit Masonry
Author U. MEYER Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mauerziegel e.V., Bonn and P. SCHUBERT Institut fur Bauforschung, Aachen Abstract Flexural tests on reinforced perforated clay unit masonry (vertical holes >35%) under monotonic and cyclic […]