Experimental Investigation of Water Penetration through Semi-Interlocking Masonry Walls
Publication: Journal of Architectural Engineering
Volume 23, Issue 1
Abstract
This study experimentally investigated water penetration through semi-interlocking masonry (SIM) walls using a standard test methodology. The main objective of this study was to investigate the water-penetration performance of dry-stacked SIM walls and the effects of using gap-fillers on the testing walls. The performance of a traditional unreinforced masonry wall was used as the benchmark against which the results for SIM walls were compared. This paper reports the water-penetration performance results of several types of SIM walls investigated in this study.
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Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge the University of Newcastle (Australia) for providing financial support and the facilities used in this experiment.
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Volume 23 • Issue 1 • March 2017
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Received: Oct 29, 2015
Accepted: Aug 3, 2016
Published online: Oct 4, 2016
Published in print: Mar 1, 2017
Discussion open until: Mar 4, 2017
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