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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Case studies of material properties of late nineteenth-century unreinforced masonry buildings in Adelaide |
Author: | Derahkshan, H. Visintin, P. Griffith, M. |
Citation: | Australian Journal of Civil Engineering, 2017; 15(2):109-116 |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
ISSN: | 1448-8353 2204-2245 |
Statement of Responsibility: | H. Derakhshana, Phillip Visintin and M. C. Griffith |
Abstract: | An experimental programme was developed to improve our understanding of the actual in situ strength of non-structural components in typical South Australian unreinforced masonry (URM) construction. The focus was on testing URM walls and chimneys in out-of-plane direction, and in the course of this study 132 as-built URM material specimens were collected. The specimens were tested either in situ or in laboratory. In total, four URM houses located in Darlington, a southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, were studied. Three of the buildings were built in the 1960s and the fourth was built in the 1980s. A comparison between the buildings material strength and the default values recommended in the Australian Masonry Standards, AS3700, suggests that the code specified default lower 5% characteristic values were often greater than the measured characteristic strength. The collected data are presented for documentation and some comparison between this and other studies are also made. |
Keywords: | Unreinforced masonry; material; in situ tests; shear strength; masonry bond strength; compressive strength |
Rights: | © 2017 Engineers Australia |
DOI: | 10.1080/14488353.2017.1401196 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14488353.2017.1401196 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Civil and Environmental Engineering publications |
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