• Shubham Kahar, Pradeep Kumre, Puranjan Pawar, Surya Prakash Chandrawanshi
• MOHIT VARMA

With the introduction of the semiprobabilistic safety concept with partial factors for masonry design in Germany an increase of the horizontal action due to wind- and seismic loads is connected (s. 1). This fact was overlaid by the reduction of the number and area of stiffening walls from the point of view of economy as well as by lowering the bulk density to achieve a higher thermal insulation. The latter leads to a reduction of the available strength of the units also. Therefore considerable research efforts have been made in Germany to compensate the losses of bearing capacity and to guarantee the competitiveness of masonry with other building materials (s. 2 - 6). Confined masonry is an adequate alternative – besides the execution as reinforced masonry – in order to increase the design resistance. It has until now found only a low application in Germany. That’s why it was taken into account in the efforts to increase the load bearing capacity of stiffening walls by the research project presented in the following.

confined masonry, cyclic shear tests, effect of shrinkage, numerical simulation

"CONFINED MASONRY – A CHANCE TO IMPROVE THE LOAD BEARING CAPACITY ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 4, page no.k340-k343, April-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2304A50.pdf

"CONFINED MASONRY – A CHANCE TO IMPROVE THE LOAD BEARING CAPACITY ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 4, page no. ppk340-k343, April-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2304A50.pdf