Sentence examples for masonry has been from inspiring English sources

CORDWOOD masonry has been called a lot of things over the years: log butt, stovewood, stackwall, even "Depression building," among a few old-timers on the Upper Peninsula in Michigan.

Shear behaviour of masonry has been deeply investigated for a lot of masonry types.

Regarding toe crushing, the model assumes that the compressive strength of masonry immediately drops to zero after the ultimate compressive strength of the masonry has been exceeded.

In Brazil, structural masonry has been extensively used in the construction of the inexpensive buildings since the early 1960's and, up to now, represents one of the promising solutions for the housing deficit in the country.

A 3-D nonlinear finite element model allowing for local crushing and fracturing of the masonry has been adopted for the numerical analyses.

The global structural behaviour and dynamic properties of the compound have been evaluated using the Finite Element Modelling (FEM) technique, where the nonlinear behaviour of masonry has been taken into account by proper constitutive assumptions.

ROME -- Italian archaeology officials on Wednesday played down Italian news reports that chunks of masonry had been falling off the Colosseum.

The material nonlinearities of masonry have been attributed to mortar and unit-mortar interfaces.

The compressive stress-strain curves of brick, mortar, and masonry have been plotted and five control points have been identified on the stress-strain curve of masonry.

The mode of failure and behaviour of masonry have been investigated in terms of strength, stiffness and ductility.

In order to understand the building technique, the behaviour and the decay phenomena observed in the masonries, building materials from old and new masonry, have been characterised from the compositional and mechanical point of view.