BENDING OF CONCRETE MASONRY WALLETTES AT DIFFERENT ANGLES TO THE BED JOINTS.

There has been much work done on the flexural tensile strength of block masonry in the two principal material directions (normal and parallel to the bed joints). However, there is relatively little known about the strengths at different angles to the bed joint or about the interaction relationships for biaxial flexural tension. Therefore two test series were performed to provide data to assist in the development of a failure criteria for …