Volume 1, A – 105: Variation in shear properties of masonry

Author VERMELTFOORT, A. T. Eindhoven University of Technology, Department Structural Masonry Abstract Simultaneously with building masonry walls for lintel-tests, mortar prisms and shear-triplets were made. About four hundred mortar prisms were tested according to EN...

Shear Stress Distribution of Stiffening Walls

Author W Jäger and P Schöps Faculty of Architecture,Chair of Structural Design, Dresden University of Technology Abstract The verification of shear walls starts with the search for the weakest point. The shear strength, which is dependent on the material as well on...

Environmental Product Declarations of Autoclaved Aerated Concrete

Author H B WALTHER Xella Technologie- und Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Kloster Lehnin, Germany Abstract Type III Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) are new instruments to supply quantified environmental data for a product using predetermined parameters according...

Swiss Masonry Code Design Charts for Shear Walls

Author N Mojsilovi?(1)and J SCHWARTZ(2) (1) Institute of Structural Engineering, ETH Zurich (2) Institute of Construction Engineering, HTA Lucern Abstract The Swiss structural masonry code provisions are based on the lower bound theorem of the theory of plasticity....

The Strength of Thin Joint Solid Dense Concrete Block Work

Author J ALI, A N FRIED, O J KANYETO and J J ROBERTS Concrete and Masonry Research Group, Sustainable Technology Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Kingston, UK Abstract This paper reports on a program of testing work to investigate the properties...

Performance of Low Density Aircrete Masonry

Author M C Limbachiya(1) and C A Fudge(2) (1) Kingston University- London, UK (2)Aircrete Products Association, UK Abstract Currently in the UK, aircrete (autoclaved aerated concrete) masonry units are usually produced with a minimum declared compressive strength of...

Development of a Realistic Shear Test Method

Author D C SCHERMER Institute for Concrete and Masonry Structures, Technical University Munich, Germany Abstract Masonry, in general, cannot be regarded as a continuum material since it is composed of discrete units and mortar having different material...