TY - CONF A1 - Miccoli, Lorenzo A1 - Fontana, Patrick A1 - Ziegert, C. A1 - Müller, P. T1 - Calibration of partial safety factors for earth block masonry under compression loading N2 - The goal of the present study is to assess the feasibility to develop a first reliable database of materials parameters for Earth Block Masonry (EBM). The database is crucial when defining the materials safety factors. In the first part an experimental campaign of compressive tests were carried out on two types of earth block and two types of earth mortar. The results showed that the mean variation of the compressive strength was remarkably less than expected. This low variation is related to a production with high quality standards of the materials employed. In the second part a partial safety factor for EBM under uniaxial compression was determined through the reliability method. The results proved the reliability of a common calculation method for EBM based on partial safety factors following the current standards. T2 - IB2MAC 2016 - 16th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference CY - Padua, Italy DA - 26.06.2016 KW - Earth block masonry KW - Partial safety factors KW - Uniaxial compression test PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37067 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -