This research purposes to develop fired bricks with good physical–mechanical properties by
mixing water treatment sludge (WTS) and MSWI bottom ash (BA). BA was incorporated into …

Attributed to the discontinuous configurations and nonhomogeneous mechanical properties
of brick and mortar in masonry wall, the numerical reproduction of the structural responses …

This paper presents a streamlined image-based modeling-to-simulation framework to better
assess the hazard vulnerability of masonry structures. In this framework, a masonry wall …

This paper introduces a homogenisation technique for dry-stacking interlocking masonry
structures to improve the modelling and computational efficiency when such interlocking …

The crack resistance of fired clay bricks is crucial for the safety design of brick masonry
structures and needs to be evaluated reasonably. However, the realistic fracture parameters …

This manuscript presents a method to produce sand-polymer bricks motivated by the need to
reuse plastic waste and to reduce the embodied energy and carbon footprint associated with …

This thesis examines the mechanical properties of interlocking bricks via experimental and
numerical methods. It investigates compressive and shear properties (Part 1), effects of brick …

This thesis builds on previous work by the SDSU Geo-Innovations Research Lab on
thermally-bonded sand-polymer composites, whereby heating softens added polymer …