PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH MASONRY SOCIETY

MASONRY (4)
PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL MASONRY CONFERENCE

No. 4, July 1990, Edited by: H W H West

Contents

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1 Opening Address
Professor Emeritus A W Hendry 1

2 The BMS Masonry Strategy Forum
J B Menzies and J F A Moore 3

3 Measurement of the Rate of Deterioration of Masonry Materials and of
Conservation Treatments
L Binda, G Baronio, L Anti and A Anzani 5

4 Tests on Brick-Mortar Joints under Cyclic Shear Loads
C Amadio and S Rajgelj 10

5 Geometrical Model for Brick Masonry under Cyclic Compressive Loading
K S Naraine and S N Sinha 13

6 Energy Dissipation in Brick Masonry under Cyclic Compressive Loading
K S Naraine and S N Sinha 18

7 Lateral Loading Tests on Freestanding Walls
K Fisher, B A Haseltine and B Humphries 21

8 The Construction and Testing of a Full-Scale Prestressed Clay Brickwork
Diaphragm Wall Bridge Abutment
S W Garrity and T G Garwood 24

9 Strength and Elasticity of Calcium Silicate and Concrete Masonry
Test Specimens
J J Brooks and M A Amjad 30

10 Creep in Brickwork I-Section Walls and Solid Piers
D Lenczner 34

11 Composite Modelling of the Geometry Influence on Creep and
Shrinkage of Calcium Silicate Brickwork
J J Brooks and C S Abdullah 36

12 A Finite Element Simulation of the Influence of Material Properties
on the Shear Strength of Masonry
M Z Ghazali, J R Riddington and A H Gambo 39

13 The Design and Use of Dowels to Transmit Bending Moments
Across Movement Joints in Calcium Silicate Brickwork
G J Edgell, J F Goodwin and J D Saunders 43

14 Interactive Design of Low-Rise Masonry Walls
Michael S Childers and Terence A Weigel 46

15 Interaction Diagrams for the Design of Short Reinforced Masonry
Columns under Uniaxial Bending
S R Davies 49

16 The Behaviour of Brick Arch Bridges
C Melbourne 54

17 The Influence of Certain Parameters on the Strength of Masonry Arches
T G Hughes and R J Bridle 58

18 The Load Carrying Capacity of Masonry Walls and Columns of
Geometric Cross Section
M E Phipps and C K J Lau 62

19 Retaining Wall Design – A Survey of Current Practice
S Tillman and C Southcombe 67

20 The Role of Arnold Hendry in the Renaissance of Structural Masonry
D Foster 70

21 Concentrated Loads on Masonry
A W Page and N G Shrive 74

22 Overview of Current Canadian Brick Veneer/Steel Stud Studies
G T Suter, R G Drysdale and H Keller 78

23 On Interfacial Strains and Stresses due to Inhomogeneity in
Concrete and Masonry
N G Shrive and A Huizer 83

24 Compressive Strength of Eccentrically Loaded Hollow Block Masonry
A H P Maurenbrecher 89

25 Australian Masonry Code – AS 3700:1988
L R Baker and S J Lawrence 94

26 Analysis of Beam Column Interaction in Load Bearing Masonry
Walls – A Numerical Procedure Based on Polar Diagrams
T N Ganju 101

27 The Design of Masonry Compression Members
J Morton 106

28 International Masonry Design Codes
B A Haseltine 112

29 CEN TC 125 – European Masonry Standards
N J Bright 114

30 The Compressive Strength of Masonry Walls
A W Hendry 117

31 The New Swiss Masonry Design Standard SIA V 177/2
J Schwartz, B Thürlimann and C Weder 122

32 Compressive Strength of Hollow Concrete Block Masonry Compared
with Eurocode 6
Francis Dran 125

33 Effect of Bed-Face Preparation in Compressive Testing of Masonry Units
F M Khalaf and A W Hendry 129

34 The Compressive Strength of Masonry Specimens
G J Edgell, R C de Vekey and R Dukes 131

35 The UK Assessment of Eurocode 6 – A Comparison with BS 5628: Part 1
S K Arora and M J Blackler 136

36 A Parametric Design Study of a 10-Storey Building to Compare BS 5628
to the Draft EC6
R S Narayanan and J Morton 141

37 Masonry Building Codes in the United States
Terence A Weigel 146

38 The Influence of Air Entraining Agents in Mortar on the Properties of Masonry
E Kjaer 150

39 The Effect of Sand Grading on the Performance and Properties of Masonry
R C de Vekey, G J Edgell and R Dukes 152