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BY
HEMANTH KUMAR M.N
UNDER GUIDANCE OF
Smt MANGALA KESHAVA
Asst. Professor, Dept of civil Engineering, BMSCE
INTRODUCTION
• Masonry may be defined as an assemblage of masonry units
along
with mortar laid in a predetermined orientatation..
• Concrete block masonry is the versatile material of today’s
construction industry because Concrete blocks having good
• thermal properties
• compressive strength
• Earthquake resistance
• durability
• Concrete masonry units are used for load-bearing and Non-load
bearing walls.
IMPORTANT FEATURES OF BLOCK MASONRY
CONSTRUCTION
It can be used for both load bearing and non load
bearing walls
Classification of concrete blocks
as per IS-2185-part-
I(1979)
Mainly 2 classifications.
Hollow ( Open or Closed Cavity Concrete Blocks)
have core area greater than 25%, but not greater than 40%.
Sub classification of Hollow blocks
Grade A- min. block density-1500 kg/m3 ,
compr .strength of 3.5,4.5,5.5,7.0 N/mm2 @ 28 D
BRICK MASONRY
BLOCK MASONRY
REINFORCED MASONRY
STONE AND BRICK MASONRY
STRUCTURES
CONCRETE BLOCK MASONRY
STRUCTURES
HOLLOW CONCRETE BLOCK MASONRY CONSTRUCTION
EARLIER STUDIES ON
MASONRY
Raghunath etal (2003) reported the flexural
strength of TMB was in the range of 0.36 MPa to
0.53 MPa .Also the flexural bond strength of TMB
prisms with cement mortar 1:6 was 0.088Mpa
Atul kumar(2009) conducted the flexure tests on
SCB prisms under normal stress
It was concluded that with increase in normal
stress the flexural strength also increased
The shear test was conducted on SCB triplet
specimens under normal stress
It was concluded that their was increase an shear
strength with increase in normal stress
OBJECTIVE OF PRESENT
INVESTIGATION
TO EVALUATE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH OF
HOLLOW BLOCK MASONRY PRISMS
Mortar
Compressive strength of mortar
.
DIMENSIONALITY TEST
Twenty hollow concrete blocks were selected at random from the
samples as per IS: 2185-(part-I) 1979 . The overall length, breadth,
height of blocks were measured with steel tape
MOE=5898Mpa
NORMALIZED STRESS V/S STRAIN CURVE
FOR HOLLOW CONCRETE BLOCK
MASONRY
FLEXURAL STRENGTH OF HOLLOW
BLOCK
The flexural strength of the
concrete block was computed as given
by “Dayarathnam P. in ‘Brick and Brick
Masonry Structures’ (1987)”. This test
gives the strength of the hollow
concrete block against the bending
load.
Compressive strength
Elastic modulus
Stress- Strain relation ship
Masonry efficiency
CASTING OF PRISMS
PRESENT EXPERIMENTAL
DETAILS
From this experiment the compression strength
was obtained.
•Hydraulic jack
•Hydraulic pump
Vertical cracks
propogated from top to
bottom course ,
Bond failure.
(REF IS:1905-1987)
Results of Modulus elasticity and Masonry
efficiency of prisms
2 5.10 6855 83
3 5.10 6515 83
4 4.88 6047 80
The normal stress applied on prisms were 0.125, 0.20, 0.40, (MPa).
EQUIPMENTS USED
Props (1 no’s)
JACK1
PR1
JACK2 ,
PR2
Hinge Two point loading
Arrangement for normal loading Arrangement for lateral loading
Prism failure normal to bed joint Prism failure normal bed to joint
Prism failure normal to bed joint Prism failure normal to bed joint
Beam-column equation
The maximum B.M for beam-column, at mid span is
K=
P = Normal load in N
a=
0.025 0.14 - - -
0.125 0.210 0.40 0.505 0.589
0.2 0.281 0.481 0.613 0.853
0.4 0.45 0.88 1.013 1.10
0.5 0.53 1.16 1.321 -
GRAPH OF FLEXURAL STRENGTH V/S NORMAL
STRESS
TEST ON HOLLOW CONCRETE BLOCK
MASONRY TRIPLET UNDER SHEAR
TEST DETAILS FOR SHEAR SPECIMENS
SHEAR STRENGTH(MPa)