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Size effect on masonry subjected to out-of-plane loading
| Resumo: | Size effect is a key aspect of masonry mechanics. This salient feature of quasi-brittle materials, which is mostly governed by the post-peak behavior of masonry and not by the randomness of the material strength, has been adopted in concrete codes but not in the new European code – Eurocode 6. In this paper, theoretical and experimental evidence of size effect in masonry subjected to flexure is presented, demonstrating the need of defining the flexural strength as a function of the width of the masonry wall. |
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| Autores principais: | Barros, Joaquim A. O. |
| Outros Autores: | Lourenço, Paulo B. |
| Assunto: | Flexural tensile strength Size effect Softening Randomness |
| Ano: | 2000 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Size effect is a key aspect of masonry mechanics. This salient feature of quasi-brittle materials, which is mostly governed by the post-peak behavior of masonry and not by the randomness of the material strength, has been adopted in concrete codes but not in the new European code – Eurocode 6. In this paper, theoretical and experimental evidence of size effect in masonry subjected to flexure is presented, demonstrating the need of defining the flexural strength as a function of the width of the masonry wall. |
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