Rehabilitation of brick masonry

Abstract

This paper presents the behaviour evaluation of perforated clay brick masonry walls related to serviceability limit state. In order to compare the deformation of the perforated bricks simple leaf walls real scale tests were performed. A rehabilitation technique for the cracked area is proposed. An experimental verification of its behaviour after the intervention was made. The tests results allowed concluding that the deformation values presented on the existing standards for reinforced concrete structures are not compatible with the masonry walls deformability capacity. The solution used on the walls rehabilitation gave a better behaviour, in terms of strength capacity and deformation, relatively to the reference walls.