J Thamboo - Construction and Building Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The confinement technique has been effectively used to enhance the strength and ductility of structural elements. Since masonry possesses relatively limited ductility and tensile …
SB Singh, P Munjal - Journal of Building Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
In this study, masonry and its material characteristics such as compressive strength of masonry prisms, bricks, mortars as well as bond strength (ie, flexural and shear bond …
Strength and deformation characteristics of masonry under uniaxial compression are researched over decades using prisms and wallettes; however, correlation between these …
Quality evaluation of a material's surface is performed through roughness analysis of surface samples. Several techniques have been presented to achieve this goal, including …
C Guo, R Wang - Construction and Building Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The mortars with Portland cement (PC), sulphoaluminate cement (CSA) and calcium sulfate (CS¯) have the potential to improve mechanized construction efficiency and apply in high …
T Zahra, M Dhanasekar - Construction and Building Materials, 2018 - Elsevier
Contact surface unevenness of the dry-stackable, interlocking blocks adversely affects the constructability of the drystack system. This paper presents the contact surface …
An experimental investigation on the flexural response of polymer cement mortar matrix overlayed or inserted with carbon fibre or auxetic fabric layers subject to four levels of rates …
Hollow block masonry buildings constructed alongside busy roads are vulnerable to vehicular impacts resulting in damage to property and harm to the building and vehicle …
Conventional formworks for concrete curved shells either are expensive, complex and wasteful or have formal restrictions. Using tile vaults (also known as timbrel, Guastavino, thin …