INFLUENCE OF FIBER REINFORCED MORTAR ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF MASONRY WALLS MADE OUT OF LOW STRENGTH BRICKS | ||||
| ERJ. Engineering Research Journal | ||||
| Article 8, Volume 25, Issue 3, July 2002, Page 201-218 PDF (255.46 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/erjm.2002.70904 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| MOHAMED H. MATTHANA; AHMED M. TAHWIA; A.H. ABDEL-REHEEM | ||||
| Structural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, EL-Mansoura University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The present paper investigates the effect of fiber reinforced mortar on the behaviour of brick masonry walls made out of low strength bricks. Both experimental and analytical investigations have been carried out. The experimental study has been carried out on five groups of walls. In four groups, all mortar joints are provided with four various amounts of fiber. The walls of the fifth group are constructed with plain mortar joints for the purpose of comparison. Walls have not been provided with any type of plastering. All walls are subjected to concentrated compressive loading and the cracking patterns and both cracking and ultimate loads are reported. The vertical and lateral strains are also measured at the centerlines of walls. Walls are then taken up for detailed finite element analysis where the various types of stresses in bricks and mortar joints are obtained. The study shows that the reinforced fiber mortar joints increase the load carrying capacity of the wall. The values of both lateral and vertical deformations are slightly increased while; the cracking patterns did not changed. | ||||
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