Ahmad, S, Augusthus Nelson, L ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3092-7635 and Swift, GM
2015,
'Two-dimensional experimental and numerical modelling of a soil-filled masonry arch'
, in:
Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development: XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
, ICE Publishing.
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Abstract
The ultimate load carrying capactiy of soil-filled masonry arches is significantly higher than that of bare masonry arches. The soil fill has a stabalising effect on the masonry arch, distributing the live load and providing passive resistance to deformation of the arch. The masonry arch behaves in a discontinuous manner, governed by interaction between masonry units and soil-masonry interfaces, where forces and displacements are concentrated. In order to understand the behaviour of this soil-structure system, a full scale masonry arch was constructed under laboratory conditions within a stiff, very low-friction chamber to accomodate backfill and confine the system to planar deformation. The system was subjected to monotonic quasi-static loading to collapse. The experimentally observed behaviour is compared with that of a 2-dimensional numerical model of the system using commercial distinct element software.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Schools: | Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre |
Publisher: | ICE Publishing |
ISBN: | 9780727760678 |
Funders: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Depositing User: | L Augusthus Nelson |
Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2016 10:13 |
Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2019 08:01 |
URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/38683 |
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