Stress-strain behavior of concrete block masonry prisms under compression

• Author(s): Mohamad, Gihad ; Lourenço, Paulo B. ; Roman, Humberto R. ; Barbosa, C. S. ; Rizzatti, Eduardo
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/21491
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Concrete block; Masonry prisms stress-strain
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

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.