Experimental study on concrete brick masonry

— This study presents the nonlinear stress-strain behavior and failure mechanisms of concrete brick masonry and its components, under compression and shear forces. II. EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM AND TEST SETUP Experimental investigations were conducted to derive simple This study investigates the properties of Concrete brick relationships for estimating the modulus of elasticity of concrete brick masonry prisms based on their compressive strength. masonry, including water absorption, initial rate of Shear strength and shear modulus of the masonry were absorption, split tensile strength, and nonlinear compressive determined by testing masonry wallets of scaled sizes. A stress-strain behavior. Stress-strain characteristics of three parametric analysis was performed to assess the influence of the grades of 50-mm mortar cubes and stack-bonded masonry compressive strength of brick masonry prisms on the shear prisms were evaluated under monotonic compressive strength of masonry wallets. loading. Masonry wallets were tested under diagonal compression to assess shear behavior.