Compressive, flexural bond, and shear bond strengths of in situ New Zealand unreinforced clay brick masonry constructed using lime mortar between the 1880s and 1940s

Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 559-566

  Lumantarna, Ronald ^a   Biggs, David T ^b   Ingham, Jason M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Biggs Consulting Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Brick masonry; Compressive strength; Flexural strength; In situ testing; Masonry prism; Masonry properties; Shear strength; Walls

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; LIME BRICK; MASONRY CONSTRUCTION; MORTAR; SHEAR STRENGTH;

BRICK MASONRY; IN-SITU TESTING; MASONRY PRISMS; MASONRY PROPERTIES; WALLS;

BOND STRENGTH (MATERIALS);

BUILDING CONSTRUCTION; COHESION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FLEXURE; IN SITU TEST; MASONRY; MORTAR; SHEAR STRENGTH; WALL;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84896076735     PISSN: 08991561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)MT.1943-5533.0000685     Document Type: Article

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