TY - JOUR A1 - Miccoli, Lorenzo A1 - Paganoni, S. A1 - Fontana, Patrick A1 - D'Ayala, D. T1 - Pull-out strength of anchor pins for brickwork masonry and earth block masonry / Auszugsfestigkeit von Verpressankern für Ziegel- und Lehmsteinmauerwerk N2 - In this paper results of the experimental testing performed on brick masonry and earth block masonry are presented. The paper outlines the development of the testing procedures for two different types of anchors. For this purpose, two experimental campaigns of pull-out tests on masonry corner connections strengthened by metallic rod grouted were carried out. Experimental results proved that the implemented testing procedures are suitable to determine the most recurring failure modes of the anchor pins. Moreover, a procedure is proposed to estimate the capacity of grouted anchor pins based on experimental studies. N2 - Mit diesem Beitrag soll die experimentelle Beurteilung von Verpressankern für Mauerwerk vorgestellt werden. Es wurden zwei Versuchsserien mit Ankerauszugsversuchen an Mauerwerksecken aus Ziegel- und Lehmsteinmauerwerk durchgeführt. Die Versuchsergebnisse haben gezeigt, dass die gewählten Versuchsabläufe geeignet sind, die am häufigsten wiederkehrenden Versagensarten der Verpressanker zu bestimmen. Darüber hinaus wird eine Vorgehensweise vorgeschlagen, die es ermöglicht, die Traglast von Verpressankern auf Basis experimenteller Untersuchungen abzuschätzen. KW - Brickwork masonry KW - Earth block masonry KW - Anchor pins KW - Bond strength KW - Pull-out test PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/dama.201500669 SN - 1432-3427 SN - 1437-1022 N1 - Sprachen: Deutsch/Englisch - Languages: German/English VL - 19 IS - 5 SP - 383 EP - 393 PB - Ernst CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-34634 LA - mul AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Miccoli, Lorenzo A1 - Müller, U. A1 - Pospisil, S. T1 - Rammed earth walls strengthened with polyester fabric strips: Experimental analysis under in-plane cyclic loading N2 - This study analyses the mechanical behaviour under pseudo-dynamic loading of structural elements built in rammed earth and strengthened with polyester fabric strips. This strengthening technique was developed to exploit the strength potential of rammed earth and to solve its lack of tensile strength. For this reason, in-plane cyclic tests were carried out to investigate the shear behaviour of unstrengthened and strengthened walls. The strengthening technique requires low-tech equipment and workmanship, uses readily available, not expensive and industrially standardised materials. The experimental results were analysed in terms of stiffness degradation, energy dissipation capacity and equivalent viscous damping. Although the unstrengthened and strengthened walls confirmed a limited ductile behaviour, the findings confirm that the strengthening contributes to limit the spread of the diagonal cracks and provide an increase of strength in terms of horizontal load and displacement capacity. KW - Rammed earth KW - Pseudo-dynamic loads KW - Shear-compression tests KW - Strengthening KW - Polyester fabric strips PY - 2017 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2017.05.115 IS - 149 SP - 29 EP - 36 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-40497 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -