@article {bnh-5154, title = {Case studies of material properties of late nineteenth-century unreinforced masonry buildings in Adelaide}, journal = {Australian Journal of Civil Engineering}, volume = {15}, year = {2017}, month = {11/2017}, abstract = {

An experimental programme was developed to improve our understanding of the actual\ in situ\ strength of non-structural components in typical South Australian unreinforced masonry (URM) construction. The focus was on testing URM walls and chimneys in out-of-plane direction, and in the course of this study 132 as-built URM material specimens were collected. The specimens were tested either\ in situ\ or in laboratory. In total, four URM houses located in Darlington, a southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, were studied. Three of the buildings were built in the 1960s and the fourth was built in the 1980s. A comparison between the buildings material strength and the default values recommended in the Australian Masonry Standards, AS3700, suggests that the code specified default lower 5\% characteristic values were often greater than the measured characteristic strength. The collected data are presented for documentation and some comparison between this and other studies are also made.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/14488353.2017.1401196}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14488353.2017.1401196}, author = {Hossein Derakhshan and Phillip Visintin and Michael Griffith} }