TY - JOUR
T1 - Shear and flexural behaviour of unreinforced masonry wallets with steel wire mesh
AU - Banerjee, Susanta
AU - Nayak, Sanket
AU - Das, Sreekanta
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are thankful for the financial support by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India, vide File No. YSS/2015/000279, for carrying out the research work.
Funding Information:
The authors are thankful for the financial support by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB ), Govt. of India, vide File No. YSS/2015/000279 , for carrying out the research work.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/7
Y1 - 2020/7
N2 - Unreinforced masonry structures are prone to severe damage and even collapse when subjected to seismic loading. Thus, these structures need to be retrofitted for withstanding earthquakes. This study presents a method for improving the shear and flexural behaviour of unreinforced masonry (URM) wallets by using steel wire mesh as a reinforcing material. Two different bricks (of clay and fly ash) were used for the construction of wallets. Steel wire mesh was placed in different layouts to determine the optimum quantity of reinforcement. Diagonal compression tests and four-point bending tests were carried out to investigate the in-plane and out-of-plane behaviour of the wallets, respectively. Shear capacity, flexural strength, and ductility of the wallets are also reported. Furthermore, cost-effective analysis was carried out to study the variation of strengthening cost with improvement in strength of the masonry wallets.
AB - Unreinforced masonry structures are prone to severe damage and even collapse when subjected to seismic loading. Thus, these structures need to be retrofitted for withstanding earthquakes. This study presents a method for improving the shear and flexural behaviour of unreinforced masonry (URM) wallets by using steel wire mesh as a reinforcing material. Two different bricks (of clay and fly ash) were used for the construction of wallets. Steel wire mesh was placed in different layouts to determine the optimum quantity of reinforcement. Diagonal compression tests and four-point bending tests were carried out to investigate the in-plane and out-of-plane behaviour of the wallets, respectively. Shear capacity, flexural strength, and ductility of the wallets are also reported. Furthermore, cost-effective analysis was carried out to study the variation of strengthening cost with improvement in strength of the masonry wallets.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jobe.2020.101254
DO - 10.1016/j.jobe.2020.101254
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079357974
SN - 2352-7102
VL - 30
JO - Journal of Building Engineering
JF - Journal of Building Engineering
M1 - 101254
ER -