11 can be referred to for determining strength of dry stack units.
Shear strength of concrete block wall.
Assuming a strength of 1 000 pounds and a factor of safety of 5 the safe load would be 200 pounds per square inch or 200 x 192 38 400 pounds for the whole surface of the block.
Such a block 9 inches high weighs 130 pounds.
For the plain walls the increase in axia l stress from 2 mpa to 3 mpa resulted in a 29.
Thus compressive strength of typical units could vary between 2000 psi 13 79mpa and 4000 psi.
By applying weight functions to put different failures together in a failure zone the shear strength of concrete hollow block masonry under combined shear and compression loading which including three typical failures is presented.
Shear strength reduced from 7654 lbs to 6589 lbs.
Comparative result is shown that the calculated strength agreed well with the experimental results.
Strength reduced from 136 7 to 116 8 in kips.
Increase in the shear strength of the wall with a further inc rease to 44 when the axial stress.
Tek 14 1b section properties of concrete masonry walls ref.
Shear wall concrete strength in plane and out of plane is calculated for the applied loads and compared with the code permissible shear capacity.
Bending strengthof the section has been reduced by about 15 shear strengthat wall base has been reduced by about 14.
The shear strength of masonry triplets was mainly determined by the failure of hollow concrete block unit.
27 58 mpa standard methods of sampling and testing concrete masonry units ref.
3500 psi concrete 5 10.
In stiffeners and boundary elements spwallcalculates the required shear and torsion steel reinforcement.
In the case of masonry structures subjected to seismic loads shear failure mechanism of walls characterised by the formation of diagonal cracks by far predominates the sliding shear failure.
3 clear rather than the designed 2 clear.