Structural Masonry: An Experimental/ Numerical Basis for Practical Design Rules (CUR Report 171)

This text provides a basis for a standardized approach to structural masonry, using an integration of experimental and computational techniques. Accurate displacement-controlled materials experiments have produced an extensive database of strength, stiffness and softening properties for tension, compression and shear, and this data has been transferred into numerical models for simulating the deformational behaviour of masonry structures. The models have been implemented into finite and distinct element codes and have subsequently been verified against shear wall experiments and analytical solutions for masonry parts.

J.G. Rots -TNO Building and Construction Research, Rijswijk, Netherlands.