EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SOME MASONRY-WALL COURSEWORK MATERIAL TYPES UNDER HORIZONTAL LOADS AND THEIR COMPARISON

In this study, the collapsing loads and shear stress of wall samples made of full blend bricks have been examined under horizontal loads within their planes using various bricking types and the results have been compared. To this end, samples were produced using the plain-bricking, lock-bricking and cross-bricking methods. In the performed experimental study, the standard sliding-resistance test technique for the masonry-wall samples was used as recommended in ASTM 1391-81.The behaviours observed with the experimental samples and the cracks that occurred at the end of the experiment were examined and the tau (shear stress) graphs and the horizontal load-displacement graphs were drawn and compared with the experiment results obtained with numerical modelling using the ANSYS program. When these three bricking types were compared, the biggest collapse load occurred for the cross bricking with 240 kN. The biggest shear stress was also found in the cross bricking, with a value of 55 000 kN/mm(2).