TY  - JOUR
N2  - Interlocking mortarless masonry system has been developed as an alternative system for the conventional bonded masonry. This paper covers the analysis of interlocking mortarless hollow concrete block system subjected to axial compression loads using FEM. An incremental-iterative finite element code is written to analyze the masonry system till failure. The stress-strain relation obtained from test is employed and equivalent uniaxial strain concept is used to account for the material nonlinearity in the compression stress field. The developed program is also capable of simulating the nonlinear progressive contact behaviour (seating effect) of dry joint taking into account the block bed imperfection. The comparison shows a good agreement between the developed FE program and the experimental test results. © 2007 Civil-Comp Ltd and Elsevier Ltd.
IS  - 6
KW  - Concrete blocks; Finite element method; Iterative methods; Strain
KW  -  Block beds; Constitutive relations; Dry stacked masonry systems; Interlocking blocks; Interlocking mortarless masonry systems; Seating effects
KW  -  Masonry construction
ID  - scholars476
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-39749159811&doi=10.1016%2fj.compstruc.2007.05.022&partnerID=40&md5=947dddca68aeed5c0094cf59a6394530
JF  - Computers and Structures
A1  - Thanoon, W.A.M.
A1  - Alwathaf, A.H.
A1  - Noorzaei, J.
A1  - Jaafar, Mohd.S.
A1  - Abdulkadir, Mohd.R.
VL  - 86
Y1  - 2008///
N1  - cited By 32
SP  - 520
TI  - Finite element analysis of interlocking mortarless hollow block masonry prism
AV  - none
EP  - 528
SN  - 00457949
ER  -