Shear and compressive mechanical properties are needed for the evaluation of the strength
of masonry shear walls by means of simplified methods or numerical analysis. This, in turn …

Masonry is a composite non-homogeneous structural material, whose mechanical
properties depend on the properties of and the interaction between the composite …

The work presented in this thesis was developed at the Department of Civil Engineering of
University of Minho. This work is eminently experimental and intends to be a valuable …

This study addresses the problem of evaluation of strength of masonry walls. In-plane
behavior of masonry panels has been studied under monotonic diagonal-compression and …

The masonry tensile strength and shear modulus play a key role in the definition of the shear
capacity of masonry structures. These properties are often determined experimentally by …

In the case of masonry structures subjected to seismic loads, shear failure mechanism of
walls, characterised by the formation of diagonal cracks, by far predominates the sliding …

Rubble stone masonry walls were widely used in traditional buildings in Mediterranean
countries. However, the mechanical behaviour of those walls is not completely characterized …

Within an experimental programme which also includes shake-table tests on three full scale
prototype buildings, a set of tests on single walls has been performed for the …

In the last forty years an enormous growth in the development of numerical tools for
structural analysis has been achieved. The use of such tools demands advanced testing in …

Dry-stacked masonry walls gives rise to geometric imperfections: the height variation of
different masonry blocks ΔH and the roughness of the support area Δh. This paper studies …