Stress-strain behavior of concrete block masonry prisms under compression

• Autor(es): Mohamad, Gihad ; Lourenço, Paulo B. ; Roman, Humberto R. ; Barbosa, C. S. ; Rizzatti, Eduardo
• Data: 2012
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/21491
• Origem: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Assunto(s): Concrete block; Masonry prisms stress-strain
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês

Descrição

The aim of this work is to critically assess a stress-strain model using experimental masonry prisms constructed from different blocks and mortar. The following conclusion may be drawn from this work: mortar is mostly responsible for the non-linear behavior of masonry. The initial tangent modulus, obtained taking into account the compressive strength, provides a strongly non-linear relationship between elasticity modulus and compressive strength.