COMPRESSION CHARACTERISTICS OF CONCRETE BLOCK MASONRY PRISMS.

This paper reports the results of part of a test series to establish stress-strain relationships for hollow, solid, and grout filled concrete block masonry. Included as part of the discussion of the interpretation of previous test programs is a comparison of the influence of the use of prisms with heights of two, three, four, and five blocks. Using the four-block-high prism as the standard, the average moduli of elasticity and the shape of the …