Manufacturing, assembly, and testing of scaled, historic masonry for one-gravity, pseudo-static, soil-structure experiments

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4362-4373

  Laefer, Debra F ^a   Hong, Linh Truong ^a   Erkal, Aykut ^b   Long, James H ^c   Cording, Edward J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent excavation; Conservation; Cracks; Historic brick masonry; Manufacturing; Mortar; Preservation; Sand; Scaling; Soil structure

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT EXCAVATIONS; CONSTRUCTABILITY; DAMAGE PATTERNS; FAILURE MECHANISM; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FIRING METHODS; GEOMETRIC SCALING; HISTORIC BRICK MASONRY; HISTORIC MASONRY; HISTORIC RESTORATION; MODEL CONSTRUCTION; PROTOTYPE SELECTION; PSEUDOSTATIC; SCALING; SHEAR CAPACITY; SOIL-STRUCTURE;

BRICK; EMBANKMENT DAMS; EXCAVATION; EXPERIMENTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MANUFACTURE; MATERIALS TESTING; MORTAR; SOILS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 79960269022     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2011.03.066     Document Type: Article

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