Capacity of innovative interlocking blocks under monotonic loading

Construction and Building Materials

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 812-821

  Ali, Majid ^a   Gultom, Ronald Jansen ^a   Chouw, Nawawi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Coconut fibres; Concrete composites; Earthquake; Interlocking block; Mortar free

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM BLOCKS; COCONUT FIBRES; CONCRETE COMPOSITES; CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE; EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT BUILDINGS; IN-PLANE SHEAR; INTERLOCKING BLOCK; INTERLOCKING MECHANISMS; MONOTONIC LOADING; MORTAR-FREE; OUT-OF-PLANE SHEAR;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EARTHQUAKES; REINFORCED CONCRETE;

FIBERS;

EID: 84866518634     PISSN: 09500618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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