Shear walls and the application of prestress to brickwork
A shear wall is a vertical wall which is loaded horizontally at the top in its plane. The stiffness of the wall is such that the deflections due to bending and shear are of comparable magnitudes. Such loads are caused by earthquakes, wind and bomb blast. In an earthquake the horizontal load is distr...
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University of Canterbury. Engineering
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9695 |