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EERC Team’s work published in LNCE

Research work on An Overview of Masonry Material Properties for Historical Buildings by Dr. P Pravin Kumar Venkat Rao, Mr. Rohan Vashisht, Research Scholar; and Prof. Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla, Director, CSIR:CBRI Roorkee has been published in the Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, Volume 549), Springer, Singapore. Here is the summary of their research work: 

Masonry is a traditional and extremely durable type of construction material.  Many heritage masonry structures from different historical eras have endured adverse environmental conditions to varying degrees despite sometimes significantly losing their integrity, strength, and durability. Throughout history, the choice of masonry materials has largely been determined by availability, local geological formations, and environmental conditions. Although masonry has evolved over the centuries, the fundamentals of using stone, aggregate, or brick in combination with a binding material have not changed. It is not surprising that strong masonry materials were used to build some of the most notable historical buildings in human history that are still standing today. Resources nowadays are devoted to heritage architecture restoration and conservation because of its cultural significance. For the proper selection of construction techniques that could be applied to structural restoration or before taking any remedial action, a thorough understanding of masonry materials is required. Architectural surveys, the use of written evidence, laboratory investigations, and on-site tests can all be used to achieve this. Hence, the current study provides a thorough overview of the materials and their mechanical properties that have been developed over more than five thousand years for the construction of different structural components of masonry buildings that helped perform well during past seismic events.

Paper Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-6603-1_18

October 2024