Kathmandu World heritage buildings are made from low strength construction especially traditional bricks. From the lesson from 2015 Gorkha earthquake, saving those buildings in severe quake has been a challenging job....Kathmandu World heritage buildings are made from low strength construction especially traditional bricks. From the lesson from 2015 Gorkha earthquake, saving those buildings in severe quake has been a challenging job. It requires proper assessment of its mechanical properties and strengthening as per seismic requirement. An investigation of mechanical properties on brick masonry heritage building has been done and presented here. Nondestructive test - elastic wave tomography at existing walls of the buildings and destructive tests shear, compression and combined loadings on the wallets made from bricks collected from old buildings The several test tests were conducted to find the properties of brick elements and walls such as, density, modulus of elasticity, Poisson’s ratio, shear modulus, shear wave velocity.展开更多
文摘Kathmandu World heritage buildings are made from low strength construction especially traditional bricks. From the lesson from 2015 Gorkha earthquake, saving those buildings in severe quake has been a challenging job. It requires proper assessment of its mechanical properties and strengthening as per seismic requirement. An investigation of mechanical properties on brick masonry heritage building has been done and presented here. Nondestructive test - elastic wave tomography at existing walls of the buildings and destructive tests shear, compression and combined loadings on the wallets made from bricks collected from old buildings The several test tests were conducted to find the properties of brick elements and walls such as, density, modulus of elasticity, Poisson’s ratio, shear modulus, shear wave velocity.
