Abstract
The ultimate load carrying capacity of soil-filled masonry arches is significantly higher than that of bare masonry arches. The soil fill has a stabilizing effect on the masonry arch, distributing the live load and providing passive resistance to deformation of the arch. The masonry arch behaves in a discontinuous manner, governed by interaction between masonry units and soil-masonry interfaces, where forces and displacements are concentrated. In order to understand the behaviour of this soil-structure system, a full scale masonry arch was constructed under laboratory conditions within a stiff, very low-friction chamber to accommodate backfill and confine the system to planar deformation. The system was subjected to monotonic quasi-static loading to collapse. The experimentally observed behaviour is compared with that of a 2-dimensional numerical model of the system using commercial distinct element software.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the XVI ECSMGE Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development |
| Place of Publication | London, UK |
| Publisher | ICE Publishing |
| Pages | 541-546 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-0-7277-6067-8 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2015 |
| Event | European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering - EICC, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 13 Sept 2015 → 17 Sept 2015 http://xvi-ecsmge-2015.org.uk/ http://xvi-ecsmge-2015.org.uk/ |
Conference
| Conference | European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering |
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| Abbreviated title | XVI ECSMGE 2015 |
| Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
| City | Edinburgh |
| Period | 13/09/15 → 17/09/15 |
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