Description
Wiley India Structural Masonry by K S Jagadish
Structural masonry in India, especially when bricks are used as masonry units, is substantially different from brick masonry in the west. This is due to the rather low strength of bricks here. The properties of bricks vary widely from region to region and the elastic modulus of the mortar is often more than that of the brick. This book attempts to address this situation by studying the load carrying capacity of such brick masonry.
About the Author
K.S. Jagadish joined the faculty of Civil Engineering in 1967 in the Institute and also spent a year as Post Doctoral Fellow at Karlsruhe University in Germany. He eventually became Professor of Civil Engineering sin Indian Institute of Science in 1984. He concurrently took up the Chairmanship of the Centre of ASTRA from 1983 to 1989. After retirement in 2002 he was Emeritus Scientist for 4 years. In 2006 he took up Visiting Professorship at R. V. College of Engineering and mentored their Master’s Program in Structural Engineering till Jan 2015.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BOOK REVIEW
Introduction to masonry
Materials for masonry
Masonry in compression
Masonry walls in axial and eccentric compression
Masonry bond strength and masonry in flexure and shear
Design of masonry walls
Failure theories of masonry
Masonry behaviour due to earthquake ground motions
Index