Material properties of existing unreinforced clay brick masonry buildings in New Zealand
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Material properties of existing unreinforced clay brick masonry buildings in New Zealand
Description (Dublin Core)
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The material properties of New Zealand’s heritage clay brick unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings were investigated and are reported herein. Material data was collected from a total of 98 New Zealand clay brick URM buildings and a database was compiled that was comprised of various masonry material properties. The intention behind the reporting of information and data presented herein was to provide indicative values to the professional engineering community to aid as preliminary input when undertaking detailed building assessments for cases where in-situ testing and brick and mortar sample extraction are not feasible. The data presented is also used to support the relationships for URM material properties that have been recommended by the authors for incorporation into the next version of the NZSEE seismic assessment guidelines for URM buildings. Although researchers from Europe, USA, India and Australia have previously studied the material properties of clay brick unreinforced masonry, knowledge on New Zealand URM material properties was poor at the time the study commenced. Therefore, a research programme was undertaken that was focused on both in-situ testing and laboratory testing of samples extracted from existing New Zealand clay brick URM buildings.
Creator (Dublin Core)
Almesfer, Nasser
Dizhur, Dmytro Y.
Lumantarna, Ronald
Ingham, Jason M.
Publisher (Dublin Core)
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New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering
Date (Dublin Core)
2014-06-30
Type (Dublin Core)
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Article
Format (Dublin Core)
application/pdf
Identifier (Dublin Core)
https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/163
10.5459/bnzsee.47.2.75-96
Source (Dublin Core)
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Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering; Vol 47 No 2 (2014); 75-96
2324-1543
1174-9857
Language (Dublin Core)
eng
Relation (Dublin Core)
https://bulletin.nzsee.org.nz/index.php/bnzsee/article/view/163/151
Rights (Dublin Core)
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Copyright (c) 2014 Nasser Almesfer, Dmytro Y. Dizhur, Ronald Lumantarna, Jason M. Ingham
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
