Performance improvement studies of masonry houses using elastic post-tensioning straps.
Unreinforced masonry houses are composed of building blocks with weak inter-binding action between them which commonly possess low tensile strength. The principal tensile stresses generated by out-of-plane bending and in-plane shear forces cannot be tolerated well and leads to heavy structural damag...
| Published in: | Earthquake engineering & structural dynamics. 36, 5 (2007). |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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