During an earthquake, a wall is subjected to a three-dimensional acceleration field and undergoes simultaneous in-plane and out-of-plane loading. It is often noted that in the field of brittle material strength, presence of one type of loading on a structural element affects the strength of that element against another type of loading. Considerable number of numerical and experimental studies, carried out to-date to investigate the behaviour of masonry walls under seismic loading, have either considered the in-plane response or the out-of-plane response of the wall separately without due consideration for any possible interaction between the two responses. In this paper, the results of a series of tests with different levels of simultaneous in-plane shear and out-of-plane bending actions on small brick walls constructed with standard high strength mortar are presented. The tests results indicate noticeable interaction between the in-plane shear and out-of-plane bending strengths of brick walls. The interaction curve appears to follow a circular trend.
Maheri, M. R., & Najafgholipour, M. A. (2013). Experimental Investigation of the Unreinforced Small Masonry Walls under Bidirectional Seismic Loading. Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, 15(2), 121-129.
MLA
Mahmoud Reza Maheri; Mohammad Amir Najafgholipour. "Experimental Investigation of the Unreinforced Small Masonry Walls under Bidirectional Seismic Loading". Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, 15, 2, 2013, 121-129.
HARVARD
Maheri, M. R., Najafgholipour, M. A. (2013). 'Experimental Investigation of the Unreinforced Small Masonry Walls under Bidirectional Seismic Loading', Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, 15(2), pp. 121-129.
VANCOUVER
Maheri, M. R., Najafgholipour, M. A. Experimental Investigation of the Unreinforced Small Masonry Walls under Bidirectional Seismic Loading. Journal of Seismology and Earthquake Engineering, 2013; 15(2): 121-129.
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