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- Title
- Response of Reinforced Block Masonry Walls to Out-of-Plane Static Loads.
- File
- PB93214567.pdf
- Author(s)
- Hamid, A. A.; Abboud, B. E.; Farah, M. W.; Hatem, M. K.; Harris, H. G.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., September 1989, 130 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- REPT-3.2(A)
- Abstract
- The report presents the results of a comprehensive test program conducted in the Structural Testing Laboratory, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Drexel University to study the response of reinforced block masonry walls under out-of-plane monotonic and cyclic loads.
- Keywords
- ; Masonry; Cracking (Fracturing); Seismic design; Walls; Reinforcing steels; Earthquake engineering; Eccentrics; Loads (Forces); Lateral pressure