Influence of joint thickness and mortar-block elastic properties on the strength and stresses developed in soil-cement block masonry

Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 535-542

  Reddy, B V ^a   Lal, Richardson ^a   Rao, K S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Lateral stress; Masonry; Mortars; Poisson ratio; Soil cement; Stress strain relations

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC ANALYSIS; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM; FEM ANALYSIS; LATERAL STRESS; LOAD-BEARING MASONRY; MASONRY; MASONRY PRISMS; MASONRY UNITS; MORTAR JOINTS; POISSON'S RATIO; SOIL-CEMENT BLOCKS; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS; MORTAR; PLASTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; PRISMS; SOIL CEMENT; SOILS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

POISSON RATIO;

CEMENT; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; MASONRY; MORTAR; POISSON RATIO; SOIL MECHANICS; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 70349518668     PISSN: 08991561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0899-1561(2009)21:10(535)     Document Type: Article

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