Table 2.

2 Summary of Brick Wallet Test (Thapa, 2011)

Average
compressive Average
Experimental Specific Young's Shear
strength shear
Material setup and weight modulus modulus
(MPa) strength
type (kN/m3) (MPa) (MPa)
(MPa)
N/mm2

Mud Compression
17.5 34.5 - 1.09 -
mortar test on cubes
Brick Compression
13.5 - - 9.18 -
unit test on cubes
Compressive
19 - - 0.56 -
Mud test
masonry Combined
19 632 253 - 0.14
brick loading test
wall Diagonal
panel compression 19 336 172 - 0.14
test

2.4 Literature on experimental study on complete masonry buildings

Sathiparan (2016) investigated roof diaphragm effect on unreinforced masonry structure

under dynamic loading. Three one-quarter scale one–storey adobe masonry house models
with different roof conditions had been tested by subjecting them to sine sweep sinusoidal
loading signals (with varying frequency in the range of 2 to 35 Hz and an increasing input
amplitude ranging from 0.05g to 0.8g). The number of cycles was kept constant over the
runs. The key findings of the experiment were to understand roof diaphragm played
important role in failure mode of masonry structures. The incremental loading sequence
did not have any effect on finding on which acceleration level model failed but it helped
to demonstrate damage propagation. The models were loaded in the weak direction, in-
plane for walls with openings and out of plane for side walls.

Magenes, Penna, Senaldi, Rota and Galasco, A. (2015) performed a full scale
unreinforced two storey stone masonry building shaking table test in its original
configuration. The 1979 Montenegro earthquake was taken as input to be applied by the
shaking table and incremental dynamic testing was conducted. The unreinforced building
specimen with very flexible floors underwent the collapse mechanism. After the local
failure, connection between orthogonal walls were improved by installation of perimeter
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