Factors determining the quality of masonry – differentiation of resistance and reliability
Joanna Zięba
j.zieba@prz.edu.plDepartment of Building Structures, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture; Rzeszow University of Technology; 2 Poznańska Street, Rzeszow 35-084; (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1800-5697
Lidia Buda-Ożóg
Department of Building Structures, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture; Rzeszow University of Technology, 2 Poznańska Street, Rzeszow 35-084; (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1205-1345
Izabela Skrzypczak
Department of Building Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering Environmental Engineering and Architecture; Rzeszow University of Technology; 2 Poznańska Street; Rzeszow 35-084; (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0978-3040
Abstract
A house or any other building without walls is truly hard to imagine. The first thing usually associated with walls is, of course, masonry. Today, masonry walls perform a load-bearing function in buildings up to four above-ground floors, in the higher parts of the buildings they perform a protective and stiffening function. However, there is a widespread opinion that the designer does not have to check the bearing capacity of masonry structures because masonry are were stand, are standing and will stand. Not everyone, however, currently works the wall as it should. The problem is that a lot of emphasis is now placed on reducing construction times. Therefore, there are a number of factors affecting the quality of the masonry structure, which overall reduce their safety. The article presents the influence of the quality of masonry on the differentiation of bearing capacity and reliability of an example masonry structure. The analyses included various values γm of the partial factor, recommended in the national annex PN-EN 1996-1, depending on the category of masonry units, class execution of works and type of mortar. In addition, a decrease in load capacity and reliability caused by the increase of the initial eccentric resulting from the inaccuracy of the masonry wall was examined.
Keywords:
masonry structures, reliability of construction, compressive strength, quality assuranceReferences
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Joanna Ziębaj.zieba@prz.edu.pl
Department of Building Structures, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture; Rzeszow University of Technology; 2 Poznańska Street, Rzeszow 35-084; Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1800-5697
Authors
Lidia Buda-OżógDepartment of Building Structures, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture; Rzeszow University of Technology, 2 Poznańska Street, Rzeszow 35-084; Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1205-1345
Authors
Izabela SkrzypczakDepartment of Building Structures, Faculty of Civil Engineering Environmental Engineering and Architecture; Rzeszow University of Technology; 2 Poznańska Street; Rzeszow 35-084; Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0978-3040
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