Department of Civil Engineering
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, E3B 5A3
ABSTRACT
An experimental program consisting of seventy-two full scale wall specimens was carried out to investigate behaviour or masonry walls under eccentric loading. Two equations were proposed to evaluate the flexural rigidity immediately prior to failure for reinforced masonry walls with various eccentricities. For reinforced walls tested in the range 0<=e/t<= 0.18, an appropriate value of EIeff was found to be 0.70 EmI0. In the range 0.18<e/t < 0.5, it was found that EIeff = 2.7EmI0 exp(-7.5e/t)>=EmIer. It is reasonable to conclude that the values applied in the Canadian masonry code are conservative by comparison with those obtained from the experimental results.
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