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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"masonry wall"”.
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An Exploration of the Masonry Wall
… of this thesis. Can a user learn how a brick wall is constructed, by looking and interacting with the brick wall they sleep within at night? Is it easier for one to understand his/her built environment if the construction is done in a manner that makes the means transparent, versus hidden …
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Assessing low thermal conductivity of bricks which contain rice husk, corn cob and waste tea as an additive material
… and control brick (CB) was used to build a small masonry wall sized 1m length x 0.215 m width x 1m height. Result indicates that RH small masonry wall recorded low temperature compared to the CB small masonry wall. Low thermal conductivity bricks can helps in reducing heat absorbed by the bricks …
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Seismic Damage Analysis and Design of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings
A model for evaluating the structural damage to masonry buildings subjected to earthquake ground motion is proposed. Damage is expressed as a combination of the effects of excessive deformation and repeated loadings. Model parameters for unreinforced brick masonry were obtained from cyclic load …
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The Brick Panel
A masonry wall or panel is made by the stacking of individual units; typically brick, stone, concrete block or glass block. These units are bound together by mortar to form continuous vertical surfaces. Traditionally, mortar is a paste made from a mixture of sand and cement. What other materials …
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Evaluation of lateral strength and deflection for unreinforced masonry cracked walls
… lateral strength and deflection of unreinforced masonry cracked walls is developed in this study. With this approach, the post cracked behavior is considered by neglecting the shear transfer across the cracked masonry. Based on the developed shear and normal stress distributions with cracking, …
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Process of building: a school in suburbia
… the filigree of steel trusses, the order of a masonry wall, and the memory of concrete. Knowledge of building process reveals opportunities to raise building into architecture. For the following design a pallet of building processes were assumed from typical high school construction, including: …
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Seismic In-Plane Response of Reinforced Concrete Frames with Masonry Infill Walls
… destructive earthquakes indicate that infill walls interact with reinforced concrete (RC) frames in buildings during an earthquake and could cause failure mechanism different than what the frames are originally designed for. A new method to identify the failure modes of RC frames with infill …
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Towards Nearly Zero Energy Buildings in Lebanon: Bioclimatic Design and Experimental Strategies
… of publication claim that externally-placed wall insulations have better effects on internal temperature than internally-placed ones. In contrast, a highly and internally-insulated house in Lebanon has won local and international sustainable awards by claiming that internal peak temperatures …
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Optimization of timber-based strengthening techniques for the seismic retrofit of existing masonry buildings
… the seismic and energy retrofit of unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings considering various case scenarios and evaluating both the mechanical and the energetic performance of the intervention. Timber engineered products were employed as base components for the retrofit intervention. The products …
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Strengthening of reinforced masonry walls subjected to out-of-plane pseudo-static cyclic load using advanced composite
… conducted experimental tests on unreinforced masonry walls (URM) strengthened with advanced composite materials. Consequently, the strengthening design guidelines are limited in their scope to URM. This research aimed to investigate the behavior of reinforced masonry walls strengthened with …
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Collapse analysis of unreinforced masonry domes and curving walls
The safety and assessment of historic masonry structures continues to be a challenge for most analysts, especially for more complex buildings. Historic masonry structures have great cultural and economic value, but engineers have not examined the collapse modes for many masonry elements. This …
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On the Effective Stiffness of Slender Concrete Masonry Walls
The slender masonry wall design procedure in the Canadian Standard for Design of Masonry Structures, CSA S304-14, (2014) has been found to be overly conservative. The calculated effective stiffness term, EIeff, which is used to determine the secondary moment due to wall deflection, was noted as a …
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Numerical Analysis of Reinforced Masonry Shear Walls Using the Nonlinear Truss Approach
Reinforced masonry (RM) shear walls are a common lateral load-resisting system for building structures. The seismic design guidelines for such systems are based on relatively limited experimental data. Given the restrictions imposed by the capabilities of available experimental equipment, …
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Low Carbon Architecture: New Approach Toward Sustainability in Relation to Existing Buildings
… and define its character, such as brick walls with masonry ornament, two bank vaults, Wissahickon Schist foundation wall, and ceiling trusses. This thesis explores new approaches to leverage the embodied energy of the permanent parts of the abandoned bank and transform it into a …
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Seismic Performance of Unreinforced Masonry Walls Retrofitted with Post-tensioning Tendons
Unreinforced masonry (URM) structures have historically been regarded as structurally unsound in response to seismic events. The tendency for URM walls to collapse out-of-plane in a brittle manner is continually cause for concern. Retrofit of these walls is necessary in order to prevent severe …
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Sustainable 3D Concrete Printing for Eco-conscious Construction: Recycled Aggregates and Low-carbon Binders
… fabrication of a full-scale sinusoidal cavity wall segment. The wall is produced with a low-carbon 3D printable concrete mixture with cement content of 348 kg/m3 (achieved by using a large volume of fly ash and silica fume as alternative binders combined with an aggregate-to-binder mass ratio …
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Mejora del comportamiento térmico de los morteros de cal aditivados y su empleo en la rehabilitación de inmuebles = Improvement of thermal behaviour of additived lime mortars and their use in rehabilitation of buildings
… is to isolate the interior, losing thereby the wall’s heat storage capacity with the associated risk of condensation. The tradition in the use of renders, especially lime-based, allows us to use them not only as an aesthetic element or to protect the ancient masonry, but also for improved …
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Firemní mateřská škola ve Zlíně
Cílem této diplomové práce je navrhnout nízkoenergetickou firemní mateřskou školu s prodlouženým provozem pro Krajskou Nemocnici Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně. Budova má jedno nadzemní bezbariérové podlaží. V mateřské škole se nachází dvě samostatné třídy pro děti s hygienickým zařízením a zázemím pro …