Comparison of the Masonry Building Codes Turkish, Euro and USA Building Codes

Year 2018, Volume: 13 Issue: 2, 89 - 96, 30.06.2018

M. Sami Donduren Omeed Ali

Abstract

The
term ‘masonry’ covers a wide range of materials such as clay brick, stone,
cellular concrete block and adobe and in turn masonry structures are wall-bearing
systems constructed by using such materials, which vary widely in form and
mechanical properties. Seismic safety of masonry structures deserves special
consideration in view of the fact that a high percentage of the population has
been living in such buildings in moderate-to-severe seismic zones of the world.
Although most of the life losses during earthquakes have occurred due to
collapse of masonry buildings, the efforts to quantify the seismic performance
of masonry structures and to increase their performance are still inadequate
when compared with the current advances in the area of reinforced concrete (RC)
technology and construction. In this study Paper we chose three design
codes of buildings in Europe, America and Turkey Code to compare between their codes about ancient masonry
building properties we explain their manners and rules that they depend on it
during the masonry building design. As the result it seen different manners
that belongs to the zone condition of every code. We study three mechanical
properties included Materials Strength, Compressive strength and shear force strength.

Keywords

Masonry, Building, Code, Earthquake

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