Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- The S.A.A. Brickwork Code: The research background
- In
- Civil Engineering Transactions
- Imprint
- vol. CE11, no. 2, Institution of Engineers Australia, Oct 1969, pp. 165-176
- Description
Paper No. 2803, submitted by the author on 16th April, 1969.
At the time of writing of this paper, the author, A. J. Francis, FIEAust, was Professor of Civil Engineering with the University of Melbourne, and was Chairman of the S.A.A. Committee which prepared the Brickwork Code. He is now Chief Technical Advisor, UNESCO Mission to Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey.
[This paper was awarded the R. W. Chapman Medal 1969]
- Abstract
This paper deals with the theoretical and experimental background to the structural provisions of the S.A.A. Brickwork Code AS CA47-1969.
As a preliminary to this, brickwork construction is placed in its historical setting, and the principal structural features of modern load-bearing brick structures are described.
Much of the paper is devoted to the most important property of load-bearing brickwork, the permissible compressive stress as it is affected by brick and mortar strength, slenderness ratio, eccentricity of load, joints, concentrated loads and other factors; to the permissible tensile and shear stresses; to the increase in stresses allowed for transient or temporary loads; to the stresses caused by differential expansion or contraction: and to the question of overall stability.
How the effective eccentricity of vertical load in walls and piers may be estimated, and structural analysis for lateral loads, are matters important to the designer, and receive some discussion.
Reference is made throughout to the guidance received from a study of other Codes. The paper concludes with a list of problems which, in the writer's opinion, require further research before they can be regarded as solved.