Behaviour of interlocking mortarless hollow block walls under in-plane loading

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2018-01Keyword
In-plane loadingShear strength
Mortarless masonry
Dry joint
Putra block
Hollow block
Stru-and-tie model
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© 2018 Engineers Australia. This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Journal of Structural Engineering on 31 Jan 2018 available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13287982.2018.1433489.Peer-Reviewed
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Experimental study of five full scale masonry wall panels subjected to prescibed pre-compressive vertical loading and increasing in-plane lateral loading is discussed. All five walls were constructed using interlocking mortarless load bearing hollow concrete blocks. The behaviour of wall in term of deflections along the wall height, shear strength, mortarless joint behaviour and local and overall failures under increasing in-plane lateral loading and pre-compressive vertical loading are reported and analysed. Simple strut-and-tie models are also developed to estimate the ultimate in-plane lateral capacity of the panel walls tested. The results indicate that, as the pre-compressive load increases, the in-plane lateral load capacity of walls increases. All walls tested failed due to diagonal shear and/or moderate toe crushing depending on the level of the pre-compressive load. The proposed strut-and-tie models were able to give reasonable predictions of the walls tested.Version
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Safiee NA, Nasir NAM, Ashour AF et al (2018) Behaviour of interlocking mortarless hollow block walls under in-plane loading. Australian Journal of Structural Engineering. 19(2): 87-95.Link to Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1080/13287982.2018.1433489Type
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https://doi.org/10.1080/13287982.2018.1433489