Day 1: Jun 3rd, 2012
Pre-conference Event (Optional): Construction and building industry
Day & Welcome Reception

09:00am

Welcome and Opening

09:30am

Structural Masonry By A Constructor Point Of View
Eng. Renato Soffiatti Mesquita de Oliveira - Fortenge Construções

10:00am

Site Implementation Of Structural Masonry
Eng. Marcio Santos Faria - Arq.EST Consultoria & Projetos

10:30am

High-Rise Structural Masonry Buildings in Brazil
Arq. Carlos Alberto Tauil - Bloco Brasil
Eng. Claudio Oliveira Silva - ABCP

11:00am

Coffee Break

11:30am

Masonry Pre-Fabrication
Eng. João Alberto Kerber - Edifficaz Tecnologia em Construção

12:00am

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Of Clay Masonry
Dra. Cássia Ugaya - Anicer

12:30am

Alvenarias Reforçadas com Treliças Galvanizadas Murfor
Eng. Roberto de Araujo Coelho - Belgo Bekaert Arames

13:00am

Lunch

02:00pm

Special Session (Optional): Masonry Engineering - Past Development, Current Overview, Future Improvements

02:00pm

In Brazil - Marcio Correa

02:30pm

in the United Kingdom - Barry Haseltime

03:00pm

in Canada - Robert Drysdale

03:30pm

Coffee Break

04:00pm

In the United States - Richard Klingner

04:30pm

In Australia - Adrian Page

05:00pm

Discussion – Guilherme Parsekian (Moderator)

06:00pm

Welcome Reception

Day 2: Jun 4th, 2012
Short Courses (optional), Keynote Speech, Technical Sessions
Room: Flores

09:00

Ecological Hiking at Costão

09:00/10:45

Short Course (Optional) - Special Masonry Topics: Accidental Damage and Progressive Collapse Design
Barry Haseltime

11:00/12:45

Short Course (Optional) - Special Masonry Topics: Slender Wall Design
Robert Drysdale

12:30pm

Lunch

02:00pm

Conference Opening and Welcome
Keynote Speech: Current perspectives on conservation of heritage masonry in Canada
Nigel Shrive

03:15pm

Technical Sessions

04:30pm

Coffee break

05:00pm

Technical Sessions

09:00pm

Conference Barbecue

Day 3: Jun 5, 2012
Short Courses (Optional), Keynote Speech, Technical Sessions
Room: Flores

09:00

Ecological Hiking at Costão

09:00/10:45

Short Course (Optional) - Special Masonry Topics: Non-Linear Numerical Modelling of Masonry
Paulo Lourenço

11:00/12:45

Short Course (Optional) - Special Masonry Topics: Prestressed Masonry Design
Nigel Shrive

12:30pm

Lunch

02:00pm

Conference
Keynote Speech: Performance of earthquake strengthened buildings in the Christchurch earthquake
Jason Ingham

03:15pm

Technical Sessions

04:30pm

Coffee break

05:00pm

Technical Sessions

09:00pm

Conference Dinner

Day 4: Jun 6th, 2012
Keynote Speech, Technical Sessions, Closure

09:30am

Conference
Sustainability Aspects of Masonry Materials and Buildings
Gregg Borchelt

10:30am

Coffee break

11:00am

Technical Session

12:30am

Conference Close

3:15pm

1A 1

Composite load bearing behaviour of unreinforced and reinforced wall constructions made of clay units filled with standard concrete

Markus Graubohm

3:30pm

1A 2

Clay block prisms under compressive loads: testing and modeling

Marcio Antonio Ramalho, Alberto Taliercio Marcio Antonio Ramalho, Alberto Taliercio

3:45pm

1A 3

Contribution of mortar covering on compressive behavior of non-loadbering clay brick small walls

Carlos Welligton de Azevedo Pires Sobrinho, Sama Tavares Andrade, Romilde Almeida Oliveira, Fernando Artur Nogueira

4:00pm

1A 4

Examination of the prescribed concrete block masonry compressive strengths in the canadian masonry design standard, csa s304.1-04

Yasser Korany

4:15pm

1A 5

Permissible stress level of brick masonry under compressive cyclic loading

Milad Alshebani

3:15pm

1B 1

A study of wall surface temperature variations for housing in moderate climates

Dariusz Alterman, Adrian William Page, Stuart Hands, Caimao Luo, Behdad Moghtaderi

3:30pm

1B 2

Development of ceramic blocks for masonry constructions with thermal insulation filling on the basis of easily renewable raw materials and by-products

Jiri Zach, Jiri Brozovsky

3:45pm

1B 3

Evaluation of damage evolution in masonry due to environmental parameters and salt capillary rise

Elena Gabrielli, Friedrich Gruener, Camilla Colla

4:00pm

1B 4

Improvement of the thermal resistance of load-bearing perforated ired-clay brickwork

Zoubeir Lafhaj, Christophe Chapiseau, Fayçal El Fgaier, Ibrahim Lemniei

4:15pm

1B 5

Theoretical analysis of thermal performance of clay and concrete masonry structural under various conditions

Regina Candeloro Grabarz, Lea Cristina Souza, Guilherme Aris Parsekian

3:15pm

1C 1

Behavior of masonry vaults in millstone strengthened by composite materials

Maamoun Saade, Stephan Kesteloot, Chafika Dantec, Lotfi Hamitouche, Idriss Benslimane

3:30pm

1C 2

Construction process numerical simulation and seismic assessment of Mallorca Cathedral

Pere Roca, Luca Pelà, Miguel Cervera

3:45pm

1C 3

Discrete and finite element modeling of the walls of the prince of wales fort

Andrea Cathleen Isfeld, Nigel Graham Shrive

4:00pm

1C 4

Structural aspects of traditional Cretan masonry

Kevin Glowacki, John Morgan Nichols, Nancy Lee Holland

3:15pm

1D 1

Cyclic in-plane shear behavior of unreinforced masonry wall panels strengthened with NSM FRP strips

Chaminda Konthesingha, Mark John Masia, Robert Bruce Petersen, Adrian William Page

3:30pm

1D 2

In-situ testing of brick masonry walls strengthened with CFRP fabric

Samo Gostic, Vlatko Zvonimir Bosiljkov, Mojca Jarc Simonic

3:45pm

1D 3

Reliability of unreinforced masonry bracing walls

Eric Brehm, Shelley Lissel

4:00pm

1D 4

Structural design of supplementary injection anchors inside masonry

Birger Gigla

4:15pm

1D 5

The new italian guide lives for FRP strengthening of masonry and timber structures

Andrea Benedetti, Elio Sacco

5:00pm

2A 1

Analysis of influencing factors on composite action for reinforced grouted concrete block wall-beam

Ximei Zhai, Yanfeng Guo, Song Gao

5:15pm

2A 2

Development of reliability assessment software for existing masonry buildings supported by reinforced concrete frames

Xianglin Gu, Dongjie Sun, Kai Sun, Bin Peng

5:30pm

2A 3

Macro modeling of the arch effect: a parametric study

Rafael Santos de Moraes, Jorge Augusto Serafim, Guilherme Aris Parsekian

5:45pm

2A 4

The effect of the position of the supports on the behaviour of composite masonry walls

Dirk Martens, A.T. Vermeltfoort

6:00pm

2A 5

Practical aspects of testing composite masonry walls

A T Vermeltfoort

5:00pm

2B 1

A mix design methodology for concrete block units

Artêmio Frasson Jr, Juliana Machado Casali, Alexandre Lima Oliveira, Luiz Roberto Prudêncio Jr

5:15pm

2B 2

Experiences and analysis on masonry materials subjected to high-temperatures

Marco Andreini, Anna De Falco, Mauro Sassu

5:30pm

2B 3

Hygrothermal characteristics of pumice aggregate concrete used for masonry wall blocks

Hülya Kus

5:45pm

2B 4

Use of natural sisal fiber in concrete blocks for structural masonry

Indara Soto Izquierdo, Marcio Antonio Ramalho, Orieta Soto Izquierdo

6:00pm

2B 5

Replacement of portland cement with supplemental cementitious materials in masonry grout

Fernando S Fonseca, Kurt Siggard

5:00pm

2C 1

Analysis of the contribution of masonry infill in the overall stiffness of concrete frames

Jean Marie Désir, Thiago Pedreschi Busi, Lucas Ramires

5:15pm

2C 2

Frictional energy dissipation and damping capacity of framed semi-interlocking masonry infill panel

Yuri Zarevich Totoev, Kun Lin

5:30pm

2C 3

Interpretation of in-plane response and definition of damage levels for masonry infilled RC frames

Sanja Hak, Paolo Morandi, Guido Magenes

5:45pm

2C 4

Masonry infilled steel frames under combined in-plane lateral and axial loading

Yi Liu, Pouria Manesh

6:00pm

2C 5

Solutions for infilled masonry buildings: shaking table tests

João Miguel Carvalho Leite, Paulo Brandão Barbosa Lourenço

5:00pm

2D 1

Proposed experimental study to compare the seismic performance of reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structural walls

Omar El-Azizy, Wael El-Dakhakhni, Robert Drysdale

5:15pm

2D 2

New seismic construction categories for reinforced concrete block structural walls: analysis

Marwan Shedid, Wael El-Dakhakhni, Robert Drysdale

5:30pm

2D 3

New seismic construction categories for reinforced concrete block structural walls: experiments

Marwan Shedid, Wael El-Dakhakhni, Robert Drysdale

5:45pm

2D 4

Seismic behavior comparison of confined masonry walls of clay and concrete bricks

Angel Francisco San Bartolomé, Paola Angles, Daniel Roberto Quiun

6:00pm

2D 5

Seismic retrofit of partially grouted concrete masonry walls with polymer-cement mortar

Kenji Kikuchi, Masayuki Kuroki, Hideko Nonaka, Tomohiro Eguchi

6:45pm

3A 1

Axial capacity of dry stacked masonry wall

Fernando S Fonseca, Eric B Murray

7:00pm

3A 2

Characterization of flexural bond strength in thin bed concrete masonry

Julian Ajith Thamboo, Manicka Dhanasekar, Cheng Yan

7:15pm

3A 3

Compressive strength of thin layer mortar bed joints masonry made of polish calcium silicate units

Lukasz Drobiec, Radoslaw Jasinski, Adam Piekarczyk

7:30pm

3A 4

Sustainable dry interlocking block masonry construction

Bansal Deepak

7:45pm

3A 5

Study of the influence of compressive strength and thickness of mortar on compressive strength of prisms of structural clay blocks

Flavio Barbosa Lima, Alexandre Nascimento Lima, Wayne Santos Assis

6:45pm

3B 1

Shake table testing and analytical modeling of fully-grouted reinforced concrete block masonry shear walls

Saeid Mojiri, Michael Tait, Wael El-Dakhakhni

7:00pm

3B 2

Nonlinear seismic analysis of a modern aggregate of masonry buildings through macro-element modeling

Rui Filipe Pedreira Marques, Graça Fátima Moreira Vasconcelos, Paulo José Brandão Barbosa Lourenço

7:15pm

3B 3

Seismic behavior of reduced-scale two-storey reinforced concrete masonry shear walls

Mustafa Siyam, Wael El-Dakhakhni, Robert Drysdale

7:30pm

3B 4

Identification of performance-based damage indicators of reinforced concrete block structural walls with end confinement

Bennet Banting, Wael El-Dakhakhni

7:45pm

3B 5

Hybrid masonry seismic systems

Daniel Abrams, David Biggs

6:45pm

3C 1

3D interaction domains for unreinforced masonry panels subjected to eccentric compression and shear

Fulvio Parisi, Nicola Augenti

7:15pm00pm

3C 2

Development of a fiber model for load bearing masonry members

Francesca da Porto, Giovanni Guidi

7:30pm15pm

3C 3

Numerical analysis of unreinforced flanged walls subjected to biaxial bending

Vladimir Guilherme Haach, Marcio Antonio Ramalho, Márcio Roberto Silva CorrêaElodie Bultot, Laurent Van Parys

7:45pm30pm

3C 4

Definition of equivalent damping for masonry structures in support of displacement based design

Francesca da Porto, Luca Nicolini

7:45pm

3C 5

Numerical simulation of urm walls subjected to out-of-plane solicitations using a "unit and interaction" micro-modeling approach 

Elodie Bultot, Laurent Van Parys

6:45pm

3D 1

A shear response surface for the characterization of unit-mortar interfaces

Fulvio Parisi, Nicola Augenti

7:00pm

3D 2

Comparison of in-plane shear strength of reinforced concrete masonry walls

Nusrat Hoque, Shelley L. Lissel

7:15pm

3D 3

Effect of construction method on shear resistance of masonry walls

Ahmed Faisal Oan, Nigel Shrive

7:30pm

3D 4

Experimental assessment of the shear response of autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) masonry with flat truss bed-joint reinforcement

Martina Mandirola, Andrea Penna, Maria Rota, Guido Magenes

7:45pm

3D 5

Experimental study on shear properties of insulating perforated concrete brick masonry materials

Li Xiang, Gao Zhi Nan, Gu Xiang Lin, Song Xiao Bin, Li Yi Hong

3:15pm

4A 1

Assessment of the AS3700 relationship between shear bond strength and flexural tensile bond strength in unreinforced masonry

Mark John Masia, Goran Simundic, Adrian William Page

3:30pm

4A 2

Modeling the flexural tensile strength of masonry

Ulf Schmidt, Joachim Hannawald, Matthias Koster, Markus Graubohm, Wolfgang Brameshuber

3:45pm

4A 3

In-plane sheared unreinforced masonry wallettes – proposition of failure criterion

Jan Emil Kubica

4:00pm

4A 4

Influence of distinct reinforcing schemes on the shear resistance of masonry

Graça Vasconcelos, Pedro Alves, Paulo B Lourenço

4:15pm

4A 5

Limestone prisms - shear strength study

Nancy Lee Holland, John Morgan Nichols

3:15pm

4B 1

Comparative analyses through simplified method, plane frames and space frames of design of structural masonry buildings

Francisco Quim, Adriano de Oliveira Lima, Nilson Oliveira da Silva

3:30pm

4B 2

Economic methods for confining borders of reinforced masonry walls

Daniel Roberto Quiun, Angel Francisco San Bartolomé, Abel Higinio Moscol

3:45pm

4B 3

Experimental analysis of shear walls submitted to vertical and horizontal loads

Joel Araújo Nascimento Neto, Márcio Roberto Silva Corrêa, Marcio Antonio Ramalho

4:00pm

4B 4

The influence of architecture flexibility in masonry structure designing

Fabiana Cristina Mamede, Augusto Guimarães Pedreira Freitas

4:15pm

4B 5

Shear transfer capacity of alternative materials for horizontal slip joints in masonry

Yuri Zarevich Totoev, Goran Simundic

3:15pm

4C 1

Creep test in the prism of dry and satured ceramic blocks

Jenner Miranda Carvalho, Luís Ferreira Ramos, Paulo Barbosa Lourenço, Humberto Ramos Roman

3:30pm

4C 2

Deformation capacity of structural masonry: a review of experimental research

Amir Hosein Salmanpour, Nebojša Mojsilović, Joseph Schwartz

3:45pm

4C 3

Prestress loss of wall-floor connections in post-tensioned shear walls of CASIEL-TLM masonry

Lex van der Meer, Dirk Martens, Ad Vermeltfoort

4:00pm

4C 4

The failure mode, deformability and strength of masonry walls

Gihad - Mohamad, Paulo Brandão Lourenço, Eduardo - Rizzatti, Humberto Ramos Roman, Elizabete Yukiko Nakanishi

4:15pm

4C 5

Stress-strain behavior of concrete block masonry prisms under compression

Gihad Mohamad, Paulo Brandão Lourenço, Humberto Ramos Roman, Claudius de Souza Barbosa, Eduardo Rizzatti

3:15pm

4D 1

Development and use of a new type of concrete masonry unit

Leonardo Tolaine Massetto, Carlos Alberto Tauil, Mario Sergio Guimaraes

3:30pm

4D 2

Development of masonry modular production system

Leonardo Tolaine Massetto, Fernando Henrique Sabbatini, Carlos Alberto Tauil, Mario Sergio Guimarães

3:45pm

4D 3

Digitally augmented masonry: applications of digital technologies to the design and construction of unconventional masonry structures

Tristan Al-Haddad, T. Russell Gentry, Andres Cavieres, Trang Thai

4:00pm

4D 4

The Glasser Case: 40 years leading Brazilian CMU market

Leonardo Tolaine Massetto, Carlos Alberto Tauil, Mario Sergio Guimarães, Luciano Salvador Lima

4:15am

4D 5

Experimental investigation on the seismic behaviour of new concrete block masonry buildings

Leonardo Avila, Graça Vasconcelos, Paulo B Lourenço, Pedro Alves, Nuno Mendes

5:00pm

5A 1

Effects of dewatering on long term movement characteristics of lime mortars

Stella Muthoni Kioy, Pete Walker, Richard Ball, Enrico Fodde

5:15pm

5A 2

Experimental characterization of mortar by testing on small specimens

Luca Pelà, Andrea Benedetti

5:30pm

5A 3

Use of pozzolana in reinforcement mortar for nonstructural masonry

Romilde Almeida de Oliveira, João Manoel Freitas Mota

5:45pm

5A 4

Poisson behavior of bedding mortar under multi-axial stress conditions

Gihad - Mohamad, Paulo Brandão Lourenço, Humberto Ramos Roman, Eduardo - Rizzatti

6:00pm

5A 5

Sustainable masonry: the importance of the mortar quality for the masonry behaviour

Frederik Konstantijn Verhelst, Erik H Kjaer, Wolfram Jäger, Bernard Middendorf, Koenraad Vanbalen, Pete Walker

5:00pm

5B 1

Construction technology of the internal vertical sealing with gypsum blocks

Alberto Casado Lordsleem Junior, Maria Luiza Rodrigues Neves

5:15pm

5B 2

Contribution to the adoption of ready wooden doors in the design of structural masonry buildings

Regina Candeloro Grabarz, Guilherme Aris Parsekian

5:30pm

5B 3

Design and service processes for producing vertical non-loadbearing masonry: scope analysis

Alberto Casado Lordsleem Junior, Silvio Burrattino Melhado

5:45pm

5B 4

Seismic behavior of confined masonry walls reinforced with welded steel and ductile steel

Angel Francisco San Bartolomé, Daniel Roberto Quiun

5:00pm

5C 1

Experimental evaluation of the coefficient of restitution value of rocking stone masonry façades

Alexandre Anibal Costa, Antonio Arede, Andrea Penna, Anibal Costa

5:15pm

5C 2

Energy dissipation and stiffness identification of unreinforced masonry

Thomas Zimmermann, Alfred Strauss, Konrad Bergmeister

5:30pm

5C 3

Improved neutron-based system for nde of salt contamination and moisture in historic masonry

Amde M Amde, Richard A Livingston

5:45pm

5C 4

Inspection and lifetime assessment for arch bridges

Alexander Krawtschuk, Alfred Strauss, Oliver Zeman, Roman Wendner

6:00pm

5C 5

Uncertainties in the assessment of the seismic vulnerability of stone masonry buildings

Vlatko Zvonimir Bosiljkov, Patricia CotiÄ, Mojmir Uranjek, Meta KrÅan

5:00pm

5D 1

Out-of-plane in-situ cyclic testing of unreinforced stone masonry walls with distributed loads

Aníbal Costa, Alexandre A. Costa, Antônio Arêde

5:15pm

5D 2

Pushover seismic analysis of quasi-static tested confined masonry buildings through simplified models

Rui Filipe Pedreira Marques, Paulo José Brandão Barbosa Lourenço

5:30pm

5D 3

Shake-table testing of a 3-story, full-scale, reinforced masonry wall system

Andreas Stavridis, Marios Mavros, Farhad Ahmadi, P Benson Shing, Richard Evans Klingner, David I McLean

5:45pm

5D 4

Shaking table study on unreinforced masonry buildings

Li Xiang, Li Qiang, Gu Xiang Lin, Zhang Wei Ping, Lu Jin Biao

6:00pm

5D 5

Shaking table test to assess the out-of-plane behaviour of a stone of masonry building

Alexandre Aníbal Costa, António Arêde, Alfredo Campos Costa, Andrea Penna, Aníbal Costa

6:45pm

6A 1

Empirical flexural behaviour approach of adobe masonry

Daniel Torrealva, Mario Solis, Patricia Santillán, Gonzalo Montoya

7:00pm

6A 2

Bending capacity of dry stacked lightweight concrete block masonry

Miklós Molnár, Johan Jönsson

7:15pm

6A 3

Msjc provisions for the design of masonry deep beams

Fernando S Fonseca, Sunup Mathew

7:30pm

6A 4

The development of masonry reinforced by bond beams and bond columns to resist lateral load

Geoff John Edgell, Andrew Best

7:45pm

6A 5

Out-of-plane seismic performance of unreinforced masonry walls retrofitted using post-tensioning

Najif Ismai, Arturo E. Schultz, Jason M. Ingham

6:45pm

6B 1

Evaluation of technical condition of masonry structures

Jiri Brozovsky, Jiri Zach

7:00pm

6B 1

Evaluation of the effectiveness of masonry consolidation treatments based on scratching tomography

Fabrice Dagrain, Jean-Christophe Scaillet, Sevasti Modestou, Ioannis Ioannou

7:15pm

6B 3

Radiation from masonry products - measurement and assessment

Dieter Rosen

7:30pm

6B 4

Mechanical properties of masonry samples for theoretical modeling

Arsash Sayari

7:45pm

6B 5

Quantifying the impact of soil defects on plain masonry buildings through a global indicator based on a control-profile approach

Laurent Van Parys, Olivier Kaufmann, Elodie Bultot

6:45pm

6C 1

Influence of mortar type in the compressive strength of structural masonry of concrete blocks

Orieta Soto Izquierdo, Márcio Roberto Silva Corrêa, Indara Soto Izquierdo

7:00pm

6C 2

Investigation on using of mortar as infilling material on clay blockwork

Marcio Rogerio Nascimento, Francisco Claudio Morato Leite, Humberto Ramos Roman, Roberto Hemckmeier, Marcelo Vieira Santos, Viviany Melchior Albuquerque

7:15pm

6C 3

Numerical simulation of concrete block masonry under compression

Gihad Mohamad, Paulo Brandão Lourenço, Humberto Ramos Roman,

Eduardo – Rizzatti

7:30pm

6C 4

Numerical simulations of masonry laboratory tests: a sensitivity analysis of the compressive behaviour

Rui Sousa, Hipólito Sousa

7:45pm

6C 5

Strength of masonry prisms with high amounts of supplemental cementitious materials

Scott M Watterson, Fernando S Fonseca

6:45pm

6D 1

Finite element analyse for damage of typical masonry school building and anti-seismic strengthening method

Cui Wei, Qu Wenjun

7:00pm

6D 2

Masonry assessment for the seismic risk evaluation of historic structures

Camilla Colla, Elena Gabrielli, Giovanni Pascale

7:15pm

6D 3

Observed performance of residential masonry veneer construction in the 2010/2011 canterbury earthquake sequence

Dmytro Dizhur, Lisa Margaret Moon, Jason M Ingham

7:30pm

6D 4

Proposed technique for seismic vulnerability evaluation of single storey unreinforced masonry residential buildings in developing countries

Miqdad Khalfan, Michael Tait, Wael El-Dakhakhni

7:45pm

6D 5

Seismic safety assessment of the Church of Monastery of Jerónimos, Portugal

Paulo B Lourenco, Joao Roque, Daniel V Oliveira

10:30am

7A 1

Reinforced masonry in Europe - state of the art: masonry under compression and shear

Jan Emil Kubica, Nebojsa Mojsilović

10:45am

7A 2

Shear strength variation due to mortar strength variation and the use of triplets

A.T. Vermeltfoort

11:00am

7A 3

Shear tests on masonry elements with damp-proof course membrane

Nebojsa Mojsilovic, Matthias Krucker

11:15am

7A 4

Experimental and numerical analysis of masonry load-bearing walls

Fabiana Martins de Rezende, Eduardo - Rizzatti, Gihad - Mohamad, Humberto Ramos Roman, Marcos Scherer Bastos

11:30am

7A 5

The effect of mortar bedding type and hollow concrete block geometry on the mechanical behavior of high-strength structural masonry

Juliana Machado Casali, Alexandre Lima Oliveira, Cintya Sakamoto, Rudiele Schankoski, Luiz Roberto Prudêncio Jr

10:30am

7B 1

Masonry walls with bed joint reinforcement - a trial of description of the problem with first preposition of design method

Jan Emil Kubica

10:45am

7B 2

Development of a resilient polyurethane reinforced masonry wall system

Carly Forsythe and Wael El-Dakhakhni

11:00am

7B 3

Rationalized masonry sealing with concrete blocks: Professional qualification through of the Construction Community/ABCP

Alberto Casado Lordsleem Junior, Emanuelle Pontes Falcão

11:15am

7B 4

Pre-sealing concrete blocks & pavers using silicone nanotechnology

Kebao Ren, Douglas Kagi

10:30am

7C 1

Water penetration test on concrete block masonry

Rolando Ramirez Vilató

10:45am

7C 2

Thermophoresis on external facades: evaluation and origins

Aécio de Miranda Breitbach, Glêdes Cabral de Albuquerque Viotti

11:00am

7C 3

Quantitative analysis of the waste generated by the execution of ceramic brick masonry in residential buildings in the city of São Carlos

Felipe Fumachi, Marilu Pereira Serafim Parsekian

11:15am

7C 4

The strength of masonry walls when subject to flood loading

Daniel Herbet

11:30am

7C 5

The structural evaluation of a novel solution for sustainable masonry construction

Ian David Molesworth, Peter Walker, Enrico Fodde

10:30am

7D 1

Modified compression field theory (MCFT) for shear strength predictions of reinforced masonry shear walls

Bennet Banting, Wael El-Dakhakhni

10:45am

7D 2

Masonry design for blast loading

Mostafa ElSayed, Wael El-Dakhakhni

11:00am

7D 3

The effect of one-way arching on enhancing the performance of concrete block walls subjected to blast loading

Badr Abou-Zeid, Wael El-Dakhakhni, Ghani Razaqpur, Simon Foo

11:15am

7D 4

System-level seismic performance assessment of reinforced concrete block wall buildings, phase I: coupling prevented, torsion allowed

Paul Heerema, Wael El-Dakhakhni

11:30am

7D 5

Ungrouted cell inspection tool for masonry walls

Amr Nassr, Marwan Shedid, Wael EL-Dakhakhni