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Cyclic loading tests of masonry single piers: Volume 4 -- Additional tests with height to width ratio of 1

Sveinsson, Bjorn Ingi; McNiven, Hugh D.; Sucuoglu, Haluk

UCB/EERC-85/15, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1985-12, 163 pages (515/H482/v.4/1985)

Results are given for 30 cyclic, in-plane shear tests on fixed-ended masonry piers having a height-to-width ratio of 1.0. The tests form the final part of a test program consisting of 93 single pier tests. Previous reports have presented the test results from 63 such tests. The test setup was designed to simulate the boundary conditions the piers would experience in a perforated shear wall of a complete building. Each test specimen was a fully grouted, full-scale pier 48 in. high and 40 in. wide. Three types of masonry construction were used: a hollow concrete block, hollow clay brick, and a double-wythe, grouted-core clay brick that consisted of two brick wythes and a 3-in. grouted core. The parameters considered included the level of bearing stress, the amount of horizontal reinforcement, the anchorage of horizontal reinforcement, and the distribution of vertical reinforcement.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-85-15.pdf (111 MB)