Proposal of a test specimen to evaluate the shear strength of vertical interfaces of running bond masonry walls

Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 567-573

  Neto, Valentim Capuzzo ^a,b   Corrêa, Márcio R S ^a   Ramalho, Marcio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Federal Technical School of Tocantins   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Finite elements; Masonry; Shear strength; Vertical interfaces; Vertical loads; Walls

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CLAY MINERALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; MASONRY MATERIALS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RETAINING WALLS; SHEARING MACHINES; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; TESTING; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

(ABIOTIC AND BIOTIC) STRESS; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; FINITE ELEMENT (FE); MASONRY WALLS; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); TEST SPECIMENS;

SHEAR STRENGTH;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MASONRY; NUMERICAL METHOD; SHEAR STRENGTH; TESTING METHOD; WALL;

EID: 46749085127     PISSN: 03151468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/L07-139     Document Type: Article

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