"I tried masonry, plumbing and electric-wiring work, but only got poorer with every passing day".
Only its curved end remains, with three columns along the central Spina an obelisk removed from Egypt by the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a masonry obelisk of Constantine VII (Porphyrogenitus; 905 959 ce), and a Delphic column formed by three entwined serpents (now headless) cast after the Battle of Plataea, when the Greeks defeated the Persians in 479 bce.
This work deals with 2-D micromechanical analysis of two component adobe masonry (i.e. composite system composed of adobe bricks and mortar joints), focusing on the influence of different bond configurations and loading schemes.
Furthermore, three different computational approaches for structural masonry, i.e. micro-modelling, macro-modelling and macro-element discretization, are discussed, and a review of macro-elements for the in-plane response of unreinforced masonry walls is presented.
JAS is a composite system of steel I-beams and masonry bricks, which are placed between steel I-beams.
In this study, the suitability of using pastes from brick waste alkali-activation for repointing existing masonries (i.e., filling the most external part of mortar joints, lost due to deterioration processes) was investigated.
Since the 1960s, mining science and technology in China has experienced two technical innovations, i.e. the "Masonry Beam Theory (MBT)" and "Transfer Rock Beam Theory (TRBT)".
Each frame was tested with three masonry variants: (i) bare masonry infill, (ii) masonry infill with pre-mixed plaster on both sides and (iii) masonry infill with pre-mixed plaster on both sides and reinforced with a polyvinyl chloride (PVC) net.
Previous studies had shown that the addition of fibres to masonry elements, (i.e. blocks, mortar and plaster), improved their mechanical properties compressive, shear and tensile strength by factors of typically 0.50, 4.25 and 3.0 respectively.
The use of actual masonry specimens (i.e. small portions of wall) to be tested either in situ or in laboratory can be performed only in few particular cases, hence many moderately destructive or non-destructive techniques have been proposed so far for indirect evaluation of masonry mechanical properties, primarily compressive strength.
