Out-of-plane flexure behaviour of fly ash-lime-gypsum brick masonry walls

Gourav, K and Reddy, B V Venkatarama (2018) Out-of-plane flexure behaviour of fly ash-lime-gypsum brick masonry walls. In: ENGINEERING STRUCTURES, 173 . pp. 241-250.

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Abstract

Industrial by-products such as fly ash is being used for the manufacture of building products such as fly ash bricks. This paper is focused on understanding the out of plane flexural behaviour of fly ash-lime-gypsum (FaL-G) brick masonry, through experimental investigations. Results of the flexure strength of FaL-G brick masonry walls (under different pre-compression) in the two orthogonal directions, are discussed. Load displacement and moment-curvature relationships for the two cases presented. The cracking flexural stress using linear elastic analysis was predicted and compared with the experimental value. The results reveal that (a) the flexure strength of FaL-G brick masonry walls increases linearly with the increase in pre-compression, (b) the flexure strength parallel to bed joints is two times more than that of the flexure strength perpendicular to bed joints under zero pre-compression, (c) lateral displacements for the FaL-G brick masonry walls are larger for the case of bending perpendicular to bed joints when compared with those for bending parallel to bed joints and (d) The cracking flexural stress for the FaL-G brick masonry can be predicted closely with those of experimental values using linear elastic analysis.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	ENGINEERING STRUCTURES
Publisher:	ELSEVIER SCI LTD
Additional Information:	Copy right for this article belong to ELSEVIER SCI LTD, THE BOULEVARD, LANGFORD LANE, KIDLINGTON, OXFORD OX5 1GB, OXON, ENGLAND
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Civil Engineering
Date Deposited:	26 Sep 2018 15:27
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2018 15:27
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/60726

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