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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.14256/JCE.1576.2016

Clay block masonry and mortar joint interlocking

Davorin Penava
Vladimir Sigmund
Ivica Kožar
Filip Anić
Domagoj Trajber
Mirko Vig


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Abstract

If clay blocks with vertical voids and general-purpose mortar are used in masonry construction, interlocking will occur during placement of units and mortar. Shear strength of the clay block and solid brick masonry is usually determined in the same way, without taking interlocking into consideration. With interlocking, the tensile strength of clay blocks is reached before mortar bed joint sliding occurs. In order to consider the effect of interlocking in nonlinear analyses, three-dimensional design models were built and verified using physical model response. The shear resistance function was adopted to enable proper description of masonry response.

Keywords

clay block masonry; masonry shear strength; nonlinear design model; shear resistance function

Hrčak ID:

166242

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/166242

Publication date:

20.9.2016.

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